
Contending Forces
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A murder mystery, the story of a friendship, and a romance set in Boston's thriving, politically active middle-class Black community, Contending Forces is an unjustly forgotten American classic.
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- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction by Alyssa Cole
- Preface
- I. A Retrospect of the Past
- II. The Days "Before the War"
- III. "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before"
- IV. The Tragedy
- V. Ma Smith's Lodging house
- VI. Ma Smith's Lodging house. -Concluded
- VII. Friendship
- VIII. The Sewing circle
- IX. "Love Took up the Harp of Life"
- X. The Fair
- XI. The Fair .-Concluded
- XII. A Colored Politician
- XIII. The American Colored League
- XIV. Luke Sawyer Speaks to the League
- XV. Will Smith's Defense of His Race
- XVI. John Langley Consults Madam Frances
- XVII. The Canterbury Club Dinner
- XVIII. What Easter Sunday Brought
- XIX. The Bitter Arrow
- XX. Mother-love
- XXI. After Many Days
- XXII. "So He Bringeth Them Into Their Desired Haven"
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