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Appointed - An American Novel (Hardcover)
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Appointed - An American Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Regenerations
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Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson
and Walter Stowers, two of the editors of the Detroit Plaindealer,
a long-running and well-regarded African American newspaper of the
late nineteenth century. Drawing heavily on nineteenth-century
print culture, the authors tell the story of John Saunders, a
college-educated black man living and working in Detroit. Through a
bizarre Set of circumstances, Saunders befriends his white
employer's son, Seth Stanley, and the two men form a lasting,
cross-racial bond that leads them to travel together to the
American South. On their journey, John shows Seth the harsh
realities of American racism and instructs him in how he might take
responsibility for alleviating the effects of racism in his own
home and in the white world broadly. As a coauthored novel of
frustrated ambition, cross-racial friendship, and the tragedy of
lynching, Appointed represents a unique contribution to African
American literary history. This is the first scholarly edition of
Appointed, and it includes a collection of writings from the
Plaindealer, the authors' short story "A Strange Freak of Fate",
and an introduction that locates Appointed and its authors within
the journalistic and literary currents of the United States in the
late nineteenth century.
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