Love in a Time of Hate: New Orleans During Reconstruction

A young man from Maine fights for social equality in New Orleans after the Civil War while pursuing a serial killer becoming enmeshed in voodoo and falling in love. Much like Louisianas famous gumbo Love in A Time Of Hate: New Orleans During Reconstruction is a spicy dish of varied ingredients. The main theme is the struggle for social equality between Whites Blacks and Creoles but flavor is added with the subplots of politics voodoo murder love and hate. New Orleans becomes a literal battleground as carpetbaggers scalawags Creoles and recently freed slaves fight against the entrenched southern plantation notion of white superiority.