Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South by Hopkins, Pauline E.; Owen, R. Emmett (Illustrator) - 1900

Boston: The Colored Co-Operative Publishing Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First edition. 402 pp. Red cloth decorated in pink, yellow and black, lettered in gilt on spine. A Very Good+ copy with very slight lean, a little bit of fraying to foot, back board with a few small stains, rear hinge split, a little dust soiling to edges, p. 16 a little scuffed and stained. Lettering strong, cloth generally very clean and contents bright. A romantic novel of black life from the Revolutionary era to post-Reconstruction, written by an African-American woman from New England and published by a black publishing house. An unsophisticated copy, scarce and desirable thus, of an important activist novel spotlighting postbellum racism and moral uplift in the manner of W.E.B. Du Bois.