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The Chaneysville incident : a novel / David Bradley.

by Bradley, David, 1950-

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Harper Perennial, 2021.

Historians, Black -- Fiction.

Homecoming -- Fiction.

Small cities -- Fiction.

Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.

Underground Railroad -- Fiction.

Pennsylvania -- Fiction.

United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Fiction.

9780063135628 (trade pbk.)

1st Harper Perennial ed.

40th anniversary ed.

xvii, 483 p. ; 21 cm.

First published 1990.

"With a new preface"--Cover.

"John Washington is coming home to Chaneysville. Old Jack Crawley, his father's closest friend and John's guardian, is dying, and the young man will care for him in his final days. For the brilliant and embittered black historian, it is a return that will plunge him deep into the past, into the dark secrets of this town and the buried evil of his heritage. Investigating the death of his father, Moses, a moonshiner with a difficult past, John must come to terms with his family's proud and tragic history and the terrible truth of this white rural town close to the Mason Dixon line--a waystation for slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad--that he once called home. The Chaneysville Incident is the story of John's relationship with his family, his hometown, and the woman he loves--and the indelible bonds between past and present, oppression and bondage, history and myth, faith and guilt, love and acceptance"--Publisher's website.

Historical fiction.

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