Uncle Tom's Children
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0060587148 / Publisher: HarpPerenM, December 2003
An autobiographical sketch and five short stories by the author, who was born on a Mississippi plantation, which focus on the plight of his people.
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Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.
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