The conquest
the story of a Negro pioneer
by Oscar Micheaux and Jayna J. Brown
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"The Conquest, published in 1913, is the first of seven novels written by Oscar Micheaux, better known as a prolific pioneer African-American filmmaker. This novel, along with two that followed, The Forged Note in 1915 and The Homesteader in 1917, mirrors Micheaux's experience as a black pioneer of the American West. The son of former slaves, his family had settled in Kansas as a part of the Exoduster movement in the post-Reconstruction era." "Micheaux tells the story of a brave homesteader, Oscar Devereaux, whose dream is to tame 1,000 acres of land and establish himself as an example of success for his people; hence, The Conquest. He secures the land but is overwhelmed by his struggles with drought, loneliness, and a troubled marriage."--Jacket.
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Fiction, African American pioneers, South Dakota, Literary, Fiction - General, Literature: Classics, Historical - General, Fiction / General, Autobiographical fiction, South dakota, fiction, Fiction, general, Indians of north america, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Frontier and pioneer lifePeople
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The Conquest : The Story of a Negro Pioneer: The Givens Collection
May 27, 2003, Washington Square Press
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The conquest: the story of a Negro pioneer
1994, University of Nebraska Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv).
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The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer, portrays the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen children, Devereaux leaves home to work in the Chicago stockyards and finally graduates to the job of porter in a Pullman railway car. He is personable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for a quick profit but the cultivation of property he can call his own. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of twenty-five has reaped an estate worth $20,000. Success is sweet, self-respect sweeter. But if the calamities he is exposed to as a homesteader are severe, so are those brought on by marriage to the passive daughter of a dominating preacher.
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