# The Negro in American fiction Author: Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989; Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 [Editor] Genre: Category: Literature - Other Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71171 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Negro+in+American+fiction+Brown&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary _Early Fiction._ When Americans started to write novels, at the end of the eighteenth century, the Negro was definitely part and parcel of American life. Colonial authors from Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall to Benjamin Franklin, Crèvecour and John Woolman had protested his enslavement. He was the rock upon which the constitution nearly split. In the North, there were still a few slaves and a growing body of freedmen, some of whom, like Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, Richard Allen, and Crispus Attucks, were more than locally known. The vast hordes of slaves, together with a good number of free Negroes, were a more integral part of southern society. They had cleared the forests and l... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-negro-in-american-fiction-71171/chapters/1/index.md)