The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

ISBN 10: 1529069203 / ISBN 13: 9781529069204

Editore: Pan Macmillan, 2022

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2013 Reprint of 1912 Edition. Full facsimile of the original text, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional telling of the story of a young biracial man, referred to only as the Ex-Colored Man, living in post Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Ex-Colored Man was forced to choose between embracing his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime, or by passing and living obscurely as a mediocre middle-class white man. Though the title suggests otherwise, the book is not an autobiography but a novel. However, the book is based on the lives of people Johnson knew and from events in his own life. Johnson's text is an example of a roman a clef.

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• Titolo: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1529069203
• ISBN 13: 9781529069204
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Condizione: Good

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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland, 1818. He was separated from his mother as a baby and lived with his grandmother up to the age of eight, when he was sent to live as a house servant, a field hand, and then a ship caulker. He escaped to New York in 1938 and seven years later published Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an autobiography of his life as a slave, which became an instant bestseller. Douglass rose to fame as a powerful orator and spent the rest of his life campaigning for equality. He became a national leader of the abolitionist movement, a consultant to Abraham Lincoln in the civil rights movement and a passionate supporter of the women’s rights movement. He died in 1895.