Books with title The Hindered Hand

Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs appeared in print, making him the most prolific African American novelist at the turn of the twentieth century. Brought out by Griggs’s own Orion Publishing Company in three distinct printings in 1905 and 1906, The Hindered Hand; or, the Reign of the Repressionist addresses the author’s key themes of amalgamation, emigration, armed resistance, and US overseas expansion; includes a melodramatic love story; and features two of the most sensational scenes in early African American fiction—a harrowingly graphic lynching of an innocent black couple based on actual events and the elaboration of a plot to wipe out white Southerners by introducing yellow fever germs into the water supply. Written in response to Thomas Dixon’s recently published race-baiting novel The Leopard’s Spots, Griggs’s book depicts the remnants of the old Southern planter class, the racial crisis threatening the South and the North, the social ferment of the time, the changing roles of women, and the thwarted aspirations of a trio of African American veterans following the war against Spain. This scholarly edition of the novel, providing newly discovered biographical information and copious historical context, makes a significant contribution to African American literary scholarship.

The Hindered HandSutton E. Griggs, african-american author, Baptist minister, and social activist (1872-1933)This ebook presents «The Hindered Hand», from Sutton E. Griggs. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.Table of Contents-01- About this book-02- MOTTO-03- DEDICATION-04- SOLEMNLY ATTESTED-05- TUNING THE LYRE-06- THE HINDERED HAND-07- NOTES-08- SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE HINDERED HAND-09- THE POOR WHITE AND THE NEGRO-10- HARNESSING HATRED-11- A SERIOUS HANDICAP-12- MR DIXON IS SHREWD-13- MR DIXON SCOFFS-14- THE EARLIER CHURCH LIFE OF THE NEGRO-15- MR DIXON STABS TO KILL-16- WHERE MR DIXON'S POWER FAILS-17- AS TO INTERMARRIAGE-18- PRIDE OF RACE-19- BACKWARD AFRICA-20- RECONSTRUCTION DAYS-21- MR DIXON VS HO JAMES G BLAINE-22- MR DIXON'S WIDE HEARING-23- MR DIXON'S BORROWED POWER-24- THE REAL PROBLEM-25- A FINAL WORD

In the long ago when the earth was in process of formation, it must have been that those forces of nature most expert in the fashioning of the beautiful were ordered to come together as collaborators and give to the world Almaville! Journeying toward the designated spot, they halted on the outskirts of the site of the contemplated city, and tossed up a series of engirdling hills, whose slopes and crests covered with verdure might afford in the days to come a beautiful sight to the inhabitants when riding forth to get a whiff of country air. These same forces of nature, evidently in love with their work, arranged, it seems, for all the beautiful clouds with their varying hues to pass in daily review over the head of the city to be born.