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F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
1850–1891
A busy 19th-century American writer with a taste for satire, social commentary, and melodrama, he published under several names and left behind novels that ranged from anti-slavery fiction to broad comic family history. His work captures the noise, tensions, and theatrical energy of his era.
8 Audiobooks
Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
An Outcast; Or, Virtue and Faith
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
The Von Toodleburgs; Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
"White man bery unsartin": "Nigger haint got no friends, no how"; the blackest chapter in the history of the Republican Party; the men who robbed and combined to rob the freedmen of their hard earnings.
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Siege of Washington, D.C., written expressly for little people
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
About the author
Francis Colburn Adams (1850–1891), often published as F. Colburn Adams, was an American writer associated with Charleston, South Carolina. Reference sources describe him as a miscellaneous writer who used several pseudonyms, a clue to how wide-ranging and adaptable his work was.
His books show an author comfortable moving between very different modes. Works linked to him include Our World; or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, Justice in the By-Ways, The Von Toodleburgs; Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family, Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina, and The Story of a Trooper. Taken together, they suggest a writer interested in politics, regional life, moral conflict, and comic exaggeration.
Today, Adams is mostly remembered through library and public-domain collections rather than a large modern reputation, but his surviving titles still offer a lively window into 19th-century American popular writing. For listeners who enjoy forgotten voices, he is the kind of author who can feel both historically revealing and unexpectedly entertaining.