Contents

• Background and beginnings
• Performances and Peculiar Sam
• The Colored American magazine
• The use of pseudonyms
• Booker T. Washington and famous men
• The Black woman’s era
• The voices of the dark races
• The values of race literature
• Contending forces of the slave past
• Hagar’s beautiful daughters
• Winona, manhood, and heroism
• Of one blood and the future African American
• Folk characters and dialect writing
• Short stories in the Colored American magazine
• On the platform with prominent speakers
• The New era magazine
• The late years