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(CROMWELL LIBRARY.) Timothy Thomas Fortune. Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South. 310 pages. 12mo, publisher's gilt cloth, moderate wear; a few leaves detached, rear hinge split, occasional pencil notes in margins; inscribed on flyleaf "Compliments of the author" with a clipped signature of unrelated author Alexander Crummell enigmatically laid down below. New York, 1884
Fortune (1856-1928) was a highly influential Black journalist and publisher of the New York Age. This book predicts that America's coming struggles would be not between the races, but between labor and capital, concluding on page 242: "the rich, be they black or be they white, will be found on the same side; and the poor, be they black or be they white, will be found on the same side. Necessity knows no law and discriminates in favor of no man or race." Afro-Americana 3755; Blockson 2291.
Provenance: family of author and activist John Wesley Cromwell (1846-1927) through his daughter Otelia Cromwell (1874-1972), a noted literary scholar; granddaughter Adelaide M. Cromwell (1919-2019), an important sociologist.
