Transcriber’s Note: The reader may wish to be warned that this book contains racial stereotyping more than usually unpleasant even by the standards of its time. Read as far as the [Dedication] and use that to decide whether or not you want to continue.


“The brutalized features of Walter Burton were revealed.”

[Frontispiece]


BLOOD WILL TELL

THE STRANGE STORY OF
A SON OF HAM

BY
BENJ. RUSH DAVENPORT
AUTHOR OF
Blue and Gray, Uncle Sam’s Cabins,
Anglo-Saxons, Onward, Etc.

Illustrations
by
J.H. Donahey

CLEVELAND
Caxton Book Co.
1902

Copyright
by
Benj. Rush Davenport
1902

All rights reserved