Download Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum AudioBook Free
Within the timber camps of North Florida in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston, a famous African-American anthropologist and author, learned the unwritten segregationist regulation allowing a white man to drive a white female to have his children. Dr. Ellis coined the word "paramour protection under the law" and attributed it to Hurston's personality in this novel. Two decades later, she received an assignment from the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the murder trial of Ruby McCollum, a prosperous colored female accused of slaying a white medical doctor who had been recently elected to the Florida point out senate - and rumored to be her enthusiast and father of one of her children. Intrigued with what she considered an instance of paramour protection under the law, Hurston accepted the Courier assignment. What she learned in the tiny town of Live Oak was a sordid story of interracial sex, greed, drugs, and murder, hidden by the guilty silence of its fearful people who did not want their top secret involvement in the subterranean world of illegal gaming and liquor sales to be uncovered. To paraphrase Hurston, she sensed that the storyplot performed itself out in a conspiracy of silence, behind a drape of secrecy. The audio tracks version of the storyplot contains a new advantages and afterword narrated by the author, while the novel itself is narrated by the skilled Trei Taylor, who brings a distinctive depth of personality to Zora Neale Hurston.
