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Bursting Bonds: The Autobiography of a New Negro

Bursting Bonds: The Autobiography of a New Negro

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Series: African American Intellectual Heritage

Biographies GeneralBlack American StudiesGeneral United States History

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ISBN10: 0268038856
ISBN13: 9780268038854
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Aug 15 2005
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.22 Depth: 8.58
Language: English

In 1911, William Pickens published the first edition of his autobiography, The Heir of Slaves, in which he writes about the importance of his education and recounts the experiences that led him into public life. The narrative discusses his family, the various teachers and mentors who helped guide him, and the incidents and methods by which he accomplished so much. Pickens's later works increasingly demanded the rights of full citizenship for African Americans. Bursting Bonds (1923), the second edition of his autobiography, clearly demonstrates this development by the inclusion of five new chapters on racial tensions. This important work, now back in print, marks a turning point in the evolution of African American autobiography from defence to confrontation.

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