THE LAST BLACK CONFEDERATE

John Wallis is a young veteran living in 1870s Virginia. Wallis is intelligent, urbane, sophisticated…and Negro - a rarity in the post-Civil War south. Wallis teaches at Hopkins Negro College, the fictional first-rate college for educating black men located in the Shenandoah Valley. Wallis masterfully utilizes his intelligence, wit, and reserved deviousness to satisfy his private ambition to become the most powerful black man in Virginia, with strong connections from the town of Hopkins all the way to the Governor’s mansion in Richmond.

Under the tutelage of the powerful and well-connected college president, Albert Stanton, Wallis becomes a master of secrets, scandals, and sins, sacrificing his friends, his disgraceful history and even his own wife and children to achieve this goal. The Last Black Confederate is the ultimate story of a true 19th century American capitalist, with the only boundary to his ruthless and infinite ambition being his skin color.