The Copperhead (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Harold Frederic
- First Published: 1893
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional romance
- Time of Work: 1860’s
- Setting: Four Corners, New York
- Principal Characters: Abner Beech, Hurley, Jeff, Esther Hagadorn, Jee Hagadorn, Ni Hagadorn, Jimmy
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Values, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Friendship, Civil War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fire
- Locales: New York
The Story:
Abner Beech was a stalwart, shaggy man, who had often been supervisor of his district. Jimmy, who was an orphan, went to live with him when he was six or seven years old. Abner was a town leader, a great reader, and he owned more books than most people did in Dearborn County, located in Northern New York State.
For some reason, Abner Beech violently hated the Abolitionists. The first Abolitionist in Dearborn County, as far as Jimmy knew, was old Jee Hagadorn, but now nearly everyone except Abner Beech shared the old man’s sentiments. Because the...
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