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Contending forces : a romance illustrative of Negro life North and South

Title

Contending forces : a romance illustrative of Negro life North and South / by Pauline E. Hopkins ; with illustrations and cover design by R. Emmett Owen.

Author

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)

Publication

Boston, Mass. : The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co. 5 Park Square, 1900.
©1899

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Description

[6], 13-402 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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"Copyright, 1899, by Pauline E. Hopkins. Copyright, 1900, by R.S. Elliott. All Rights Reserved."--verso of title page.
"Composition and presswork by Fish Printing Company."--verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900

Additional Formats (note)

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

accompanied by a printed portrait of the author, affixed to recto of first free endleaf, inscribed: in ink "yours for humanity, Pauline E. Hopkins." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. A retrospect of the past -- ch. 2. The days "before the war" -- ch. 3. "Coming events cast their shadows before" -- ch. 4. The tragedy -- ch. 5. Ma Smith's lodging-house -- ch. 6. Ma Smith's lodging-house, concluded -- ch. 7. Friendship -- ch. 8. The sewing-circle -- ch. 9. "Love took up the harp of life" -- ch. 10. The fair -- ch. 11. The fair, concluded -- ch. 12. A colored politician -- ch. 13. The American Colored League -- ch. 14. Luke Sawyer speaks to the League -- ch. 15. Will Smith's defense of this race -- ch. 16. John Langley consults Madam Frances -- ch. 17. The Canterbury Club dinner -- ch. 18. What Easter Sunday brought -- ch. 19. The bitter arrow -- ch. 20. Mother-love -- ch. 21. After many days -- ch. 22. "So he bringeth them into their desired haven."

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-H (Hopkins, P. E. Contending forces)

LCCN

01029735 /rev

OCLC

2843388
NYPGR2843388-B

Author

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)

Title

Contending forces : a romance illustrative of Negro life North and South / by Pauline E. Hopkins ; with illustrations and cover design by R. Emmett Owen.

Publisher

Boston, Mass. : The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co. 5 Park Square, 1900.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 1093

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 2774

Additional Formats

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-H (Hopkins, P. E. Contending forces) (accession no. B545602) accompanied by a printed portrait of the author, affixed to recto of first free endleaf, inscribed: in ink "yours for humanity, Pauline E. Hopkins." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

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