{"product_id":"9780195067859","title":"Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published \u003ci\u003eContending Forces\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed con­tain examples of black awareness and pride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pauline Hopkins writes of the injustices suffered by blacks at the hands of whites. But her novel penetrates deeper than \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin. \u003c\/i\u003eNor is the white man the sole devil in Hopkins’s fiction; there are the contending forces: “Conservatism, lack of brotherly affiliation, lack of energy for the right and the power of the almighty dollar which deadens men’s hearts to the sufferings of their brothers, and makes them feel that if only \u003ci\u003ethey \u003c\/i\u003ecan rise to the top of the ladder may God help the hindermost man, are . . . the contending forces that are dooming this race to despair.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVery little is known about this re­markable author. She was born in 1859\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ein Portland, Maine, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1930. In the 1900–1904 period, she was a member of the staff of \u003ci\u003eColored American Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003ethe most important black magazine of the time. Her novel was published in Boston by The Colored Co-operative Publishing Co.\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016405336304,"sku":"9780195067859","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195067859_p0.jpg?v=1763663379","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195067859","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}