Includes bibliographical references (299-328) and index.
Contents
The mind of a Black abolitionist : Frederick Douglass -- The mind of a White abolitionist : Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- An uncertain abolitionist : Lincoln in fact and fiction -- Lincoln's generals : Grant and Sherman in their memoirs -- Twain's Huck : fresh tears and race flapdoodle -- Pride and shame : the winning of the West -- Ethnic blues and all that multicultural jazz -- Loathing western civilization : Christianity and race in America -- Countee Cullen at "The Heights" -- The Negro writer as spokesman (1969) -- The problematic texts of Richard Wright -- Derek Walcott and the vision of Homeric grandeur -- Ralph Ellison : indivisible man.
