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PRINTS A CHAPTER OF THE FIRST BLACK DETECTIVE STORY (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) MCGIRT, JAMES M., Editor. McGirt's Magazine for January, 1908. Small 4to, original printed wrappers; light wear. Philadelphia, 1908
John Edward Bruce, under the name of Bruce Grit, wrote The Black Sleuth, a detective novelette. It was serialized monthly in the pages of McGirt's Magazine over the years 1907-1909. Chapter VII appears here. The Black Sleuth represents the first detective fiction by an African-American author. "A ringing indictment of white prejudice and black accommodation (the hero, Sadipe Okukenu, leaves a Tuskegee-like Southern college in disgust after only one week). . . . The Black Sleuth (1907-09), appeared in a black magazine so obscure that many of its issues are no longer extant." William Seraile, The Black Nationalist Writings of John Edward Bruce. rare. OCLC locates only scattered copies of this periodical and only on microfilm.
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