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Born into the squalor and humiliation of slavery, Frederick Douglass seemed destined for a lifetime of misery. So how did he break the shackles and become a world-famous... Læs mere
Chesnutt wrote this novel at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, but set it in a time and place favoured by George Washington Cable. Published now for the first time, Paul Marchand: Free Man of Color examines the system of race and caste in nineteenth-century New Orleans.