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Light Ahead for the Negro (Paperback)
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Light Ahead for the Negro (Paperback)
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Loot Price R167
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Light Ahead for the Negro (1904) is a novel by Edward A. Johnson.
Written while Johnson was working as an assistant U. S. Attorney in
North Carolina, the novel is a groundbreaking work of speculative
fiction and Afrofuturism from a pioneering African American
politician and lawyer. "I glanced through the floor but the earth
was almost indistinguishable, and was disappearing rapidly. There
was absolutely nothing that I could do. I looked up again at my
friend, who was clambering up rather clumsily, I remember thinking
at the moment. [...] Involuntarily, I closed my eyes for a moment.
When I opened them again, he was gone! My feelings were
indescribable. I commenced to lose consciousness, owing to the
altitude and the ship was ascending more rapidly every moment.
Finally I became as one dead." The son of an abolitionist applies
to work at a school for African American children in Georgia. In
June 1906, he joins a wealthy friend on a flight from New York City
to Mexico, boarding an experimental airship at a West 59th Street
pier. When an instrument failure sends them spiraling into the
upper atmosphere, the narrator loses consciousness. One hundred
years later, he lands on a lawn in Georgia, awakening to discover a
utopian society in which anti-blackness has been completely
eradicated. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Edward A. Johnson's Light Ahead
for the Negro is a classic work of African American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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