Afro American Negro Black Deep South Racism White Man Story History Culture Like
= 6) { document.writeln('');} else {document.write(' ');} //--><img src="https://ti2.auctiva.com/web/aswCredit.gif" border="0"><br><a href="https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing/listing-advanced-sellers/third-party-listing-tools.html#auctiva" target="_blank"><img src="https://ti2.auctiva.com/images/sc1line2.gif" border="0"></a> Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South PLEASE NOTE EBAY AND THOSE CONCERNED THIS IS NOT A PROPAGANDA OR RACIST AGENDA WORK. In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, publishedContending Forces,whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed con�tain examples of black awareness and pride. Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pauline Hopkins writes of the injustices suffered by blacks at the hands of whites. But her novel penetrates deeper thanUncle Tom's Cabin.Nor is the white man the sole devil in Hopkins's fiction; there are the contending forces: "Conservatism, lack of brotherly affiliation, lack of energy for the right and the power of the almighty dollar which deadens men's hearts to the sufferings of their brothers, and makes them feel that if onlytheycan rise to the top of the ladder may God help the hindermost man, are . . . the contending forces that are dooming this race to despair." Very little is known about this re�markable author. She was born in 1859in Portland, Maine, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1930. In the 1900-1904 period, she was a member of the staff ofColored American Magazine,the most important black magazine of the time. Her novel was published in Boston by The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co.Condition: Used / 1978 - Hardcover w DJ - Internals clean - Binding tight - 411 Pages.Fine book representing an age of the South.Your Chance for a Fine Book Looking Back at the Negro South. Bid Now and Enjoy ! On Jun-21-16 at 14:27:51 PDT, seller added the following information: Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter
Specifications
| All Returns Accepted | ReturnsNotAccepted |
| Topic | Social History Racism |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Subject | History |
| Origin | American |
| Printing Year | 1961 |
= 6) { document.writeln( »);} else {document.write(‘ ‘);} //–><img src= »https://ti2.auctiva.com/web/aswCredit.gif » border= »0″><br><a href= »https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing/listing-advanced-sellers/third-party-listing-tools.html#auctiva » target= »_blank »><img src= »https://ti2.auctiva.com/images/sc1line2.gif » border= »0″></a> Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South PLEASE NOTE EBAY AND THOSE CONCERNED THIS IS NOT A PROPAGANDA OR RACIST AGENDA WORK. In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, publishedContending Forces,whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed con�tain examples of black awareness and pride. Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pauline Hopkins writes of the injustices suffered by blacks at the hands of whites. But her novel penetrates deeper thanUncle Tom’s Cabin.Nor is the white man the sole devil in Hopkins’s fiction; there are the contending forces: « Conservatism, lack of brotherly affiliation, lack of energy for the right and the power of the almighty dollar which deadens men’s hearts to the sufferings of their brothers, and makes them feel that if onlytheycan rise to the top of the ladder may God help the hindermost man, are . . . the contending forces that are dooming this race to despair. » Very little is known about this re�markable author. She was born in 1859in Portland, Maine, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1930. In the 1900-1904 period, she was a member of the staff ofColored American Magazine,the most important black magazine of the time. Her novel was published in Boston by The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co.Condition: Used / 1978 – Hardcover w DJ – Internals clean – Binding tight – 411 Pages.Fine book representing an age of the South.Your Chance for a Fine Book Looking Back at the Negro South. Bid Now and Enjoy ! On Jun-21-16 at 14:27:51 PDT, seller added the following information: Track Page Views With Auctiva’s FREE Counter
