The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by the late James Weldon Johnson, a highly influential author, diplomat, and civil rights activist, is a novel classic literary memoir, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Tantor Audio.
This is their featured monthly free audiobook giveaway for February and a special selection for Black History Month, and is read by Alan Bomar Jones. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a literary novel, originally published anonymously in 1912 and now considered a classic of literature and important early influence on many other African-American authors.
The story is styled as the fictional memoir of a biracial African-American man who is able to pass as a white man at the cost of giving up his heritage and musical ambitions, exploring race relations and artistic constraints in the aftermath of the US Civil War and at the turn of the 20th century.
Offered through February, available DRM-free worldwide directly from the publisher.
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