The conquest : the story of a Negro pioneer / by Oscar Micheaux ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Learthen Dorsey.

By:

Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585266352
9780585266350

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conquest.DDC classification:

813/.52 20

LOC classification:

PS3525.I1875 C66 1994eb

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Summary: The novel portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen children, Devereaux leaves home to work in the Chicago stockyards and finally graduates to the job of porter in a Pullman railway car. He is persoable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for quick profit but the cultivation of property he can call his own. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of twenty-five has reaped an estate worth $20,000. Success is sweet, self-respect is sweeter. But if the calamities he is exposed to as a homesteader are severe, so are those brought on by marriage to the passive daughter of a dominating preacher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi).

Originally published: Lincoln, Neb., Woodruff Press, 1913.

The novel portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen children, Devereaux leaves home to work in the Chicago stockyards and finally graduates to the job of porter in a Pullman railway car. He is persoable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for quick profit but the cultivation of property he can call his own. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of twenty-five has reaped an estate worth $20,000. Success is sweet, self-respect is sweeter. But if the calamities he is exposed to as a homesteader are severe, so are those brought on by marriage to the passive daughter of a dominating preacher.

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