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(LITERATURE AND POETRY—
PERIODICALS.) HOPKINS, PAULINE,
ET AL.
A broken run of The Colored
American Magazine.
Together 16
issues: January, May/June, July, August
1903; April, August, November 1904;
March and December 1906; April and
December 1907; January, May, July 1908;
and April and October 19019 (the last
number bound upside down.) Copiously
illustrated throughout. Uniform 4to, with
illustrated covers; some dampstaining to
the covers of the first few numbers.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Boston and New York, 1903-1909
[1,500/2,500]
A broken run of this rare and important peri-
odical. The novel “Of One Blood” by Pauline
Hopkins, novelist, newspaper writer, editor and
women’s rights advocate was serialized (from
1902-1903) in the pages of the Colored
American, its only appearance. Frances E. W.
Harper, author of “Iola Leroy”, also appears
in these pages as does Frederick Douglass’s
biographical sketch on the life of Toussaint
L’Ouverture (July 1903) and Booker T. Washington’s essays on Lincoln and The African at Home.
The Colored American was a very sophisticated undertaking, beginning in 1900 and attracting the
likes of Frederick Randolph Moore and T. Thomas Fortune as writer/editors. Unfortunately, it failed
to reach the larger mass of readers and subscribership fell off sharply after 1907. The magazine folded
in 1909, issuing its last number in November. Danky, 1677; The Afro-American Periodical Press
1838-2909, pages 106-118.