Radical Responses to the The Great Depression

Po' Buckra.
Gertrude Mathews Shelby and Samuel Gaillard Stoney.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1930.

To save her unproductive plantation, a penniless woman marries a muscular "po' buckra" or poor white, who, unknown to her is really a "brass ankle" i.e. with strains of Negro and Indian blood. When the marriage fails and the plantation house becomes a rendezvous for bootleggers, she burns the mansion down in desperation.

	RADICAL RESPONSES TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION Radical Novels
		Po' Buckra. Gertrude Mathews Shelby and Samuel Gaillard Stoney. New York: Macmillan Co., 1930. To save her unproductive plantation, a penniless woman marries a muscular "po' buckra" or poor white, who, unknown to her is really a "brass ankle" i.e. with strains of Negro and Indian blood. When the marriage fails and the plantation house becomes a rendezvous for bootleggers, she burns the mansion down in desperation.