The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer /
The novel portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen children, Devereaux leaves home to work in the Chicago stockyards and finally graduates to the job of porter in a Pullman railway car. He is perso...
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| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
1994.
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