'Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at the same time a highly pertinent representation of black masculinity that will reward students of gender, slavery and the sensibilities of the 1930s.'
-Nell Irvin Painter
- ISBN10 0807063371
- ISBN13 9780807063378
- Publish Date 1 April 1992
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Beacon Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 248
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780807063378