![]() is still part-slave, part-free, with the “Hard Four” states-a unified North and South Carolina foremost among them-clinging resolutely to the old ways even as those pesky moralists the Europeans “draw no distinction between the slavery-practicing states and the slavery-tolerating ones” and as right-thinking Northerners figure out ways to resist the modern equivalent of the Fugitive Slave Act. ![]() That’s the territory that Winters ( The Last Policeman, 2012, etc.) explores in this memorable tale. Imagine: there was no Civil War, and the Confederacy has morphed into a low-tech Matrix. ![]()
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