Sutton E. Griggs (July 19, 1872-January 2, 1933) was an African American author, Baptist minister, and social activist who championed the cause of racial equality in his life and his writings. John Cullen Gruesser is the author of Race, Gender, and Empire in American Detective Fiction; The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion; Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic; and Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa. Hanna Wallinger is associate professor of American studies at Salzburg University in Austria and the author of Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Textual Note The Hindered Hand A Hindering Hand: Supplementary to The Hindered Hand: A Review of the Anti-Negro Crusade of Mr. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Notes to the Text Appendix A: The Original Version of Chapter 31 Appendix B: Notices for and Reviews of The Hindered Hand 1905-1906 Appendix C: Sutton E. Griggs, Thomas Dixon Jr., the National Baptist Convention, and The Hindered Hand Appendix D: The February 7, 1904, Holbert Lynching Appendix E: African American in the Military, Sutton Griggs on Africa, and Race Relations in Nashville Bibliography
Reviews
"A scholarly edition of The Hindered Hand is long overdue, and Gruesser and Wallinger have meticulously researched not only the publication history of the novel, but the history of Griggs's self-publishing endeavors. Their research makes a valuable contribution to the field of African American literary and book history." - Alisha Knight, author of Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream (2012)