Bøger af Oscar Micheaux

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

M-pls was an old town with a few factories, two flour mills, two or three saw mills, box factories and another concern where veneering was peeled from wood blocks softened with steam. The timber came from up the Tennessee River, which emptied into the Ohio a few miles up the river. There was also the market house, such as are to be seen in towns of the Southern states-and parts of the Northern. This market house, or place, as it is often called, was an open building, except one end enclosed by a meat-market, and was about forty by one hundred feet with benches on either side and one through the center for the convenience of those who walked, carrying their produce in a home-made basket. Those in vehicles backed to a line guarded by the city marshall, forming an alleyway the width of the market house for perhaps half a block, depending on how many farmers were on hand.

Oscar Micheaux's classic tale, based on events that Micheaux witnessed in his own life, of a lynching based on race in Atlanta.

Originally published anonymously, "The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer" tells a compelling story based in part upon Micheaux's own life and serving as a sort of autobiography. The novel follows the actions of "Oscar Devereaux," a black man who strikes out to the American West as a homesteader in the early Twentieth Century. Micheaux believed that African-Americans suffering from poverty in cities and in the South and East could achieve prosperity by moving West as homesteaders. He expended considerable time trying to persuade other African-Americans to move West. "The Conquest" served as a fictionalized treatise expressing Micheaux's views on enterprise, respect, and the pioneer spirit.

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Oscar Micheaux's classic tale of interracial love, prejudice, and frontier life in the early Twentieth Century. Based in part on Micheaux's own experiences, he later made "The Homesteader" into a motion picture of the same name. Jean Baptiste, a homesteader in the Dakotas and the only black man in the area, falls in love with Agnes, the daughter of another settler. Although society at large believes Agnes to be white, Agnes herself does not know that she is actually of biracial heritage. Pressed by racial taboos, Baptiste compromises his heart and marries Orlean, a black woman. Orlean's father, a vain and jealous preacher, initially praises Baptiste. However, the preacher's vanity spoils the marriage with Orleans, which ultimately ends in sorrow. Baptiste later returns to the Dakotas and his first love, marrying Agnes. A successful author, director, and film producer, Oscar Micheaux is considered to be the first African-American filmmaker of major motion pictures.

Autobiographical, The Homesteader expands on and continues the life of a black pioneer first described in The Conquest. In this incarnation, Jean Baptiste is his name. He has just purchased land in South Dakota when he meets his "dream girl, " but to his mind marriage is impossible because she is white. Willful but warm-hearted, refusing to act as if he has no power to shape events, Baptiste cultivates his land and plans his future. In the face of drought, pestilence, and foreclosure, he turns to writing. His first marriage to the daughter of a Chicago minister collapses in acrimony and high drama. The circumstances that lead to its failure are a telling social commentary. Always learning, Baptiste demands respect and embodies the strengths of the pioneer, the vision of the empire builder. His story will impress and inspire in this cynical age without heroic models.

A Black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux reflects on a life of perseverance. Raised alongside twelve siblings in rural Illinois, he leaves home and family behind to seek a life of fortune and independence. Never one to set limits, Devereaux discovers that no dream is beyond his reach. The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer is a novel by Oscar Micheaux.

Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of 13 children, Oscar Devereaux leaves home to work in the stockyards. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of 25 has reaped an estate worth $20,000. This novel portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader.