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Contending forces, a romance illustrative of Negro life north and south / by Pauline E. Hopkins. With illustrations and cover design by R. Emmett Owen.
LIBRA PS1999.H44 C6 1969
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 402 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [First Mnemosyne reprinting].
- Manufacture:
- Boston, Mass. : The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication:
- Miami, Florida, Mnemosyne Publishing Co., Inc., [1969].
- Contents:
- A retrospect of the past
- The days "Before the War"
- "Coming events cast their shadows before"
- The tragedy
- Ma Smith's lodging-house
- Ma Smith's lodging-house-Concluded
- Friendship
- The sewing-circle
- "Love took up the harp of life"
- The fair
- The fair-Concluded
- A colored politician
- The American Colored League
- Luke Sawyer speaks to the league
- Will Smith's defense of his race
- John Langley consults Madam Frances
- The Canterbury Club dinner
- What Easter Sunday brought
- The bitter arrow
- Mother-love
- After many days
- "So He bringeth them into their desired haven".
- Notes:
- First Mnemosyne reprinting 1969 from a copy in the Fisk University Library Negro Collection.
- Originally published by The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co., Boston, Mass., 1900.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- OCLC:
- 45758
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