Contending Forces by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Contending Forces Author: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Narrator: Margaret Espaillat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 27, 2021 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published Contending Forces, whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed con­tain examples of black awareness and pride. Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pauline Hopkins writes of the injustices suffered by blacks at the hands of whites. But her novel penetrates deeper than Uncle Tom's Cabin. Nor is the white man the sole devil in Hopkins's fiction; there are the contending forces: 'Conservatism, lack of brotherly affiliation, lack of energy for the right and the power of the almighty dollar which deadens men's hearts to the sufferings of their brothers, and makes them feel that if only they can rise to the top of the ladder may God help the hindermost man, are . . . the contending forces that are dooming this race to despair.'