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Imperium in imperio by Sutton E. Griggs
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS 3513 .G855 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial people--Fiction.
- Multiracial people.
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Black nationalism--Fiction.
- Black nationalism.
- Radicals--Fiction.
- Radicals.
- Racism--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Texas--Fiction.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Political fiction.
- Utopian fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati, OH : The Editor Publishing Co., 1899, 2018.
- Summary:
- The novel's plot is about an alternative black government existing underground at a fictional small black college in Texas called Thomas Jefferson College. In a scene near the end of the novel, the two main characters are dropped through a secret passageway into a secret underground chamber where a shadow government of black leaders met beneath the college. Disenchanted with the lack of legal rights for African-Americans under U.S law, this cadre of black leaders had plans to seize land in Texas and form an independent black nation.
- Notes:
- "Copyrighted The Editor Publishing Company 1899"--Title page verso.
- Cited in:
- Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 2286
- Negley, G. Utopian literature, 1411
- Sargent, L.T. British and American utopian literature, 1516-1985, page 61
- Other Format:
- Online version: Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933. Imperium in imperio.
- OCLC:
- 6512048
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