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A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs's turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics. Sutton E. Griggs's first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Cr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933 (Author)
Other Authors: Chakkalakal, Tess (Editor), Warren, Kenneth W. (Kenneth Wayne) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Regenerations.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
African American men > Fiction.
Black nationalism > Fiction.
Radicals > Fiction.
Racism > Fiction.
Texas > Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chronology: Life and times of Sutton E. Griggs
  • Textual note
  • Imperium in Imperio
  • Annotations
  • Emendations
  • Appendix A: The lynching of Postmaster Frazier B. Baker
  • Appendix B: The story of my struggles (1914) by Sutton E. Griggs
  • Appendix C: Griggs and the Richmond Planet
  • Appendix D: Signed first edition
  • Appendix E: The Virginian pilot
  • Appendix F: Promotional materials and contemporary review of Imperium in imperio
  • Appendix G: Speeches.