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Additional authors

1. Owen, Robert Emmett, 1878-
2. Elliott, R. S., active 1900-1901
3. Colored Co-operative Publishing Co., publisher.
4. Fish Printing Company, printer.

Description

1. [6], 13-402 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. African Americans > Fiction
2. Free African Americans > Fiction
3. African American women > Fiction
4. African American families > Fiction
5. United States > Race relations > Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
2. Insertions (Provenance)

Contents

1. ch. 1. A retrospect of the past -- ch. 2. The days "before the war" -- ch. 3. "Coming events cast their shadows before" -- ch. 4. The tragedy -- ch. 5. Ma Smith's lodging-house -- ch. 6. Ma Smith's lodging-house, concluded -- ch. 7. Friendship -- ch. 8. The sewing-circle -- ch. 9. "Love took up the harp of life" -- ch. 10. The fair -- ch. 11. The fair, concluded -- ch. 12. A colored politician -- ch. 13. The American Colored League -- ch. 14. Luke Sawyer speaks to the League -- ch. 15. Will Smith's defense of this race -- ch. 16. John Langley consults Madam Frances -- ch. 17. The Canterbury Club dinner -- ch. 18. What Easter Sunday brought -- ch. 19. The bitter arrow -- ch. 20. Mother-love -- ch. 21. After many days -- ch. 22. "So he bringeth them into their desired haven."

Call number

1. Sc Rare Fic-H (Hopkins, P. E. Contending forces)

Note

1. "Copyright, 1899, by Pauline E. Hopkins. Copyright, 1900, by R.S. Elliott. All Rights Reserved."--verso of title page.
2. "Composition and presswork by Fish Printing Company."--verso of title page.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
2. Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900

Additional formats (note)

1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

1. from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

1. accompanied by a printed portrait of the author, affixed to recto of first free endleaf, inscribed: in ink "yours for humanity, Pauline E. Hopkins." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)

Title

1. Contending forces : a romance illustrative of Negro life North and South / by Pauline E. Hopkins ; with illustrations and cover design by R. Emmett Owen.

Publisher

1. Boston, Mass. : The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co. 5 Park Square, 1900.

Copyright date

1. ©1899

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 1093
2. Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 2774

Additional formats

1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare Fic-H (Hopkins, P. E. Contending forces) (accession no. B545602) accompanied by a printed portrait of the author, affixed to recto of first free endleaf, inscribed: in ink "yours for humanity, Pauline E. Hopkins." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local note

1. Afro-American author.

Source

1. Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Sc Rare Fic-H (Hopkins, P. E. Contending forces), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material
3. Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project
4. Full text available via HathiTrust (Ohio State University copy)

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Colored Co-operative Publishing Co., publisher.
2. Fish Printing Company, printer.
3. Owen, Robert Emmett, 1878- illustrator, binding designer.
4. Elliott, R. S., active 1900-1901, copyright holder.
5. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 01029735 /rev

Research call number

1. Sc Rare Fic-H (Hopkins, P. E. Contending forces)
2. NBO (Hopkins, P. E. Contending forces)
3. *WIY 97-247