Contending Forces

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Contending Forces is written by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195052587 (ISBN 10) and 9780195052589 (ISBN 13).

Hopkins tells her share of horror stories: a white man who would free his slaves is summarily shot, his wife bound to a post and whipped; black field hands serve sadistic bosses; even two generations later, black women are ravished and black men lynched, usually for a supposed rape. Hopkins's discussionof lynching and rape is one of the sanest, most fascinating in literature.