Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel by Sutton E. Griggs

"Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel" by Sutton E. Griggs is a historical fiction novel published in 1899. It follows Belton Piedmont, an educated Black man navigating Jim Crow Virginia, and his complex friendship with Bernard Belgrave. Their paths converge in Waco, Texas, where a secret shadow government of Black men operates with revolutionary aims. As tensions mount between integration and militant separatism, Belton faces an impossible choice between his convictions and his community, leading to a dramatic confrontation about loyalty, justice, and the future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933
Title Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_in_Imperio
Credits Produced by Suzanne Shell, S.R. Ellison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 69.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Political fiction
Subject Radicals -- Fiction
Subject Utopian fiction
Subject Racism -- Fiction
Subject African American men -- Fiction
Subject Texas -- Fiction
Subject Racially mixed people -- Fiction
Subject Black nationalism -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 15454
Release Date
Last Update Dec 14, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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