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Bursting bonds : enlarged edition [of] The heir of slaves : the autobiography of a "new Negro" / by William Pickens ; edited by William L. Andrews.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pickens, William, 1881-1954.
- Series:
- African American intellectual heritage series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pickens, William, 1881-1954.
- Pickens, William.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Biography.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 76 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- University of Notre Dame Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- In 1911, William Pickens published the first edition of his autobiography, The Heir of Slaves, in which he recounts the experiences that led him into public life and the importance of his education. The narrative discusses his family, the various teachers and mentors who helped guide him, and the incidents and methods by which he accomplished so much. Pickens's later works increasingly demanded the rights of full citizenship for African Americans. Bursting Bonds (1923), the second edition of his autobiography, clearly demonstrates this development by the inclusion of five new chapters on racial tensions. This important work, now back in print, marks a turning point in the evolution of African American autobiography from deference to confrontation.
- Contents:
- My parentage
- To Arkansas
- Beginning school in earnest
- A skiff-ferry school boy
- The stave factory and the sawmill lumberyard
- "You can have hope"
- A Christian missionary college
- Preparing for Yale in ironwork
- Yale
- the Henry James Ten Eyck oratorical contest
- College teacher
- Tour of Europe
- Wiley University and Texas
- Arkansas traveler
- Morgan College and after.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1991, in series: Blacks in the diaspora.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxviii).
- ISBN:
- 0268038856
- OCLC:
- 57694894
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