Imperium in Imperio
- ISBN-10
- 0812971604
- ISBN-13
- 9780812971606
- Series
- Imperium in Imperio
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 177
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1899
- Publisher
- Random House LLC
- Author
- Sutton Elbert Griggs
Description
Imperium in Imperio (1899) is the story of two men-one black and one mulatto-who grow up in a racist America. The dark-skinned Belton, a conservative assimilationist, attends college, goes to Louisiana to advocate voting rights for blacks, and barely survives a lynch mob. The lighter-skinned Bernard is traumatized by the suicide of his beautiful black sweetheart, Viola, whose dying wish convinces Bernard to become a staunch nationalist and fight for a separation of the black and white races. Both men join a radical movement whose aim is to establish Texas as an all-black country, separate from the rest of the United States. The narrator, BerI Trout, tells the story of IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO ("a nation within a nation") on the eve of his own execution. Tomorrow, he will be put to death by his fellow nationalists for exposing their radical plot, and causing the uprising to fail.
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