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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
1994.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41742 |
| Summary: | 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 persoable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for quick profit but the cultivation of property he can call his own. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of twenty-five has reaped an estate worth $20,000. Success is sweet, self-respect is sweeter. But if the calamities he is exposed to as a homesteader are severe, so are those brought on by marriage to the passive daughter of a dominating preacher. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi). |
| ISBN: | 0585266352 9780585266350 0803282095 |