For the sake of her daughter and granddaughter, Mamba navigates a comic, calculated path from the lower class of plantation refugees to the more privileged class of African Americans who work for Charleston's prominent white families.
A rich sampling of fiction, poetry, and essays by a writer who helped propel the South to our nation DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a central figure in both the Charleston and the Southern Renaissance. His influence extended to the Harlem Renaissance as well. However, Heyward is often remembered
