More than a half century after the fact, Fire in a Canebrake is an account of the Moore’s Ford lynching, the last mass lynching in America. The cover is meant to evoke a sense of past violence in an otherwise tranquil, contemporary southern setting.

“I am invited into the calm, soothing scene, only to realize the horror that it actually is. A great expression of the lie that is America the Beautiful through design.” Archie Ferguson