Ten years ago, two of Belle Haven's Negro sharecroppers were lynched by Klansmen, in which the patriarch of the cotton plantation blamed his own son, Ethan, for this atrocity. Belle Haven is a traditional southern plantation in Savannah, Georgia, in the picturesque sprawling low-country. Now, William Montague is lying on his deathbed, agonizing over which of his children to entrust with his precious Belle Haven estate; his son Ethan, a Klansman, blasphemed his land and his daughter, Natalie, married into the prominent family of his archrival the Guilford's. The Guilford's owned the largest...
Ten years ago, two of Belle Haven's Negro sharecroppers were lynched by Klansmen, in which the patriarch of the cotton plantation blamed his own son, ...