The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

Original title: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

earliest edition we have, 1900 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023

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"The Auto-biography of an Ex-colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson, is the tragic fictional story of an unnamed narrator who tells the story of his coming-of-age at the beginning of the 20th century. Light-skinned enough to pass for white but emotionally tied to his mother's heritage, he ends up a failure in his own eyes after he chooses to follow the easier path while witnessing a white mob set fire to a black man....

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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2023 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780593469606
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781015482647
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Leap Publishers · 9780998856964
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798819411865
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781015477469
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Pan Macmillan · 176 pages · 9781529069204
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798837144134
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798352181287
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798834302490
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man edition · 2022 · Everyman · 9781841594064
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man hardcover · 2022 · Everyman's Library · 184 pages · 9780593535561
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man hardcover · 2021 · Royal Classics · 120 pages · 9781774762530

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