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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
English BooksWhale Edition by James Weldon Johnson
A powerful early twentieth-century novel on race, passing, music, identity, violence, and American society.
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is James Weldon Johnson’s groundbreaking English novel about racial identity, passing, artistic ambition, and moral compromise in the United States. This public-domain BooksWhale edition is prepared for readers of African American literature, modernism, and social history.
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James Weldon Johnson died in 1938, and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man was first published in 1912. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English original edition.
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Inside this edition
- 01Full text
- 02THE
- 03AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- 04OF AN
- 05EX-COLORED MAN
- 06PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1912
- 07I
- 08II
- 09III
- 10IV
- 11V
- 12VI
- 13VII
- 14VIII
- 15IX
- 16X
- 17XI
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