Drum

by Kyle Onstott

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449229203
• ISBN13: 9780449229200
• Release Date: March 1976
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent piece of History

Good read. The Slavery period in the 1860's was the reason the 'Anchor Baby Law' was created. The same law we have today...problem is today..it was never intended for illegals sneaking across the boarders and giving birth here in the USA..so that their babies could become automatic US Citizens! It was created back then for babies to Slaves...so they would be US Citizens....and then be owned also by the Plantation Owners. This law needs to be abolished today. Anyway these books are a very good read..all three by this author. Try to read them in order.

The old south

Read this book years ago and wanted a copy of it again to read. I was not disappointed, still a good read.

The correct date for it is 1963!

They got the date wrong! Crest came out with this in 1963. Dial press was the 1962 hardcover 1st Edition of this book.

Photo shown is for the 1962 1st Edition

This is not the first edition. The photo the other person gave was of a 1st Edition. The edition will not look like this.

slavery & interracial male and female relationships

Drum is a novel that follows three generations of men and their experience of slavery in the nineteenth century. It portrays how, in just three generations, a proud and free people can be transformed into abject but loyal slaves. The story starts in Africa where Tamboura is drugged by his brother and given to a slave trader. He is transported to the coast where he is sold to a slave ship captain and transported to Cuba. Like the first book in the Falconhurst series, Mandingo, Tamboura is used by his new owner as a sire to breed new slaves. Only Tamboura and his owner's mistress decide on a breeding campaign all their own. When the cuckolded "master" finds out, he has Tamboura killed and his mistress flees to New Orleans with Tamboura's child in her womb. She calls Tamboura's son Drum and raises him as her slave rather than her child. He becomes a fighting slave who is famous for beating all competitors. His son Drumstick is sold by his white grandmother when he is 17 to Hammond Maxwell of Falconhurst Plantation. This is the same Alabama plantation where the first novel of the series is set. So the last third of Drum takes us back to the characters of the novel Mandingo. Onstott has a great talent for bringing this period and this subject to life. He writes about interracial male and female relationships and slavery while remaining true to both races and sexes.