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ALEXANDER GIFFORD OR VI'LET'S BOY: A Story of Negro Life.
by Merrill, Rev. Henry A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine.
- ISBN 10
- 0836990366
- ISBN 13
- 9780836990362
- Seller
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About This Item
Freeport, NY:: Books for Libraries,, 1972.. Hardcover -. Fine in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine.. Facsimile reprint edition. A title in The Black Heritage Library Collection, of a work originally published in 1905. In his preface Merrill, a white minister, states that he sought to show "the real purpose of educated negroes, just as I have seen it carried out, in their efforts to adjust themselves to their new surroundings. My Negro characters are taken from lowly cabin homes, educated in good schools, and become influential agencies among their people." Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and three internal plates. 331 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83322
- Title
- ALEXANDER GIFFORD OR VI'LET'S BOY: A Story of Negro Life.
- Author
- Merrill, Rev. Henry A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0836990366
- ISBN 13
- 9780836990362
- Publisher
- Books for Libraries,
- Place of Publication
- Freeport, NY:
- Date Published
- 1972.
- Keywords
- dialect, jim crow, education,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American History and nonfiction;
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