A rebel in thought

New York: Island Press, 1944. [v], 245p., original blue cloth boards; lacking dustjacket, spine toned, bit of soil on back board, ownership signature on rear endpaper, else very good. Signed and inscribed by the author. Autobiography of a woman born on her grandfather's plantation in Alabama. Her biography is an attempt to, "refute the general belief that the educational and cultural standards of the South were very primitive," and that southerners were already "struggling with the problem of how to free the slaves.