# The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Author: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11012

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Autobiography+of+an+Ex-Colored+Man+Johnson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day. Special pleas have already been made for and against the Negro in hundreds of books, but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated. This is because writers, in nearly every instance, have treated the colored American as a whole; each has taken some one group of the race to prove his case. Not before has a composite and proportionate presentation of the entire race, embracing all of its variou...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-11012/chapters/13/index.md)