Night fell.
An edition of The quest of the silver fleece: a novel
(1911)
The quest of the silver fleece
a novel
1st Harlem Moon trade pbk. ed.
by W. E. B. Du Bois, H. S. De Lay, and Herbert Aptheker
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A controversial title of its time, the novel chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it follows the story of free-spirited Zora, child of a Southern swamp, and her romance with Yankee-educated Bles, who will eventually face the opportunity to claim political power through corrupt means. In the middle of it all is the silver fleece, a crop of cotton rich with meaning and symbolism.
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Fiction, Swamps, Cotton trade, Rejection (Psychology), Race, African American women, Social classes, Power (Social sciences), African Americans, African americans, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Fiction, political, Fiction, generalShowing 6 featured editions. View all 40 editions?
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The quest of the silver fleece: a novel
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- 1st Harlem Moon trade pbk. ed.
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The quest of the silver fleece: a novel
2004, Pine Street Books
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- 1st Pine Street Books ed.
0812218922 9780812218923
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"Shaped by the author's belief that capitalism inexorably led to the exploitation of Southern farmers during Reconstruction, 'The Quest of the Silver Fleece' dramatizes the economic conflict between cotton growers and Northern capitalists. W.E.B. Du Bois uses Miss Sarah Smith's controversial school for Southern black children as the fictional device that links wealthy cotton planters, their exploited black laborers, and the interests of Wall Street and Washington"--Page 4 of cover.
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