CONTENDING FORCES: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. by Hopkins, Pauline E. (edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli; afterward by Gwendolyn Brooks) - (1978)

Carbondale and Edwardsville, IN:: Southern Illinois University Press,, (1978). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). First thus. Originally published in 1899 by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, Boston, this was one of the first novels to be published in the US by an African American woman writer, a novel which deals realistically with the injustices, including lynching and rape, still so common 35 years after the end of the Civil War. Now reissued as a title in The Lost American Fiction series edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Includes a new afterward by Gwendolyn Brooks. Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen. 412 pp plus a list of the titles in this series.