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Chapter 3
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W. L. Hunter
In Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …
Hattie Rogers
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Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Chapter 20
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George Gissing
In Thyrza
Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…
In Conclusion
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David Walker
In Walker's Appeal
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
In In Old Plantation Days
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
Return
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Charles Dickens
In David Copperfield (version 3)
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of cha…
Chapter 10
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Sir Walter Scott
In The Fortunes of Nigel
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…
Chapter 12
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Uncalled
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
The epilogue
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In The Lady's Mile
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …
Chapter 12
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Oscar Micheaux
In The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
Chapter 7
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Thomas Davidson
In Rousseau and Education According to Nature
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
Chapter V
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Waldo Frank
In The Dark Mother
"The Dark Mother" by Waldo David Frank is an early 20th century novel. It dives into human emotions, nature, and introspection thr…
Epilogue
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H. L. Mencken
In Prejudices, Second Series
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…