Both an extraordinarily detailed examination of black life in nineteenth-century America and a richly textured and engrossing piece of fiction, Contending Forces remains one of the most important works produced by an African American before World War I.
- ISBN10 0195067851
- ISBN13 9780195067859
- Publish Date 16 July 1992 (first published 28 July 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 450
- Language English