From "Superman" to ManA classic work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance Joel Augustus Roger's seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a debate between a Pullman porter and a white racist Southern politician. |
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... slavery in the North , but it didn't pay and you gave it up . Wasn't your pedantic and self - righteous Massachusetts the first to legalize slavery ? You , Northerners , forced slavery on us , and when you couldn't make any more money ...
... slavery in the North , but it didn't pay and you gave it up . Wasn't your pedantic and self - righteous Massachusetts the first to legalize slavery ? You , Northerners , forced slavery on us , and when you couldn't make any more money ...
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... slaves used to work together in the fields in Barbadoes . Indeed , it would be quite possible to find white persons living in this country who were born in actual slavery , such having come from Russia , where slavery was abolished the ...
... slaves used to work together in the fields in Barbadoes . Indeed , it would be quite possible to find white persons living in this country who were born in actual slavery , such having come from Russia , where slavery was abolished the ...
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... slaves there for many centuries by the blacks . Read , for instance , the works of Abbe Busnot , who visited Morocco in the ... slavery today , it should be placed , not on the descendants of the slaves , but on those of the slaveholders ...
... slaves there for many centuries by the blacks . Read , for instance , the works of Abbe Busnot , who visited Morocco in the ... slavery today , it should be placed , not on the descendants of the slaves , but on those of the slaveholders ...
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