Paul Laurence Dunbar’s 1898 stories move between Kentucky plantations, slave cabins in the snow and Black congregations after emancipation: a young woman’s stumbling block on the way to conversion, trial sermons on Bull-Skin, a Christmas possum feast at Mt. Pisgah, and a freedman’s long-delayed vengeance. The dialect and the plantation sentiment, with E. W. Kemble’s illustrations, belong to their 1890s moment.
Humorous and humane stories by one of the first African American writers to win a national literary following. Download the free EPUB.