Conquest of Coomassie Ashanti African American Black Nationalist Poem 1923 1stEd

Description: Conquest of Coomassie Ashanti African American Black Nationalist Poem 1923 1stEd The Conquest of Coomassie An Epic of the Mashanti Nation by Aldebaran [Pseudonym of A.P. Byer] With Illustrations by Henry M. Brooks Coomassie Publishing Co., Los Angeles, c. 1923, first edition. Decorated tan cloth hard covers, 4.75 inche X 6.25 inches, tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of the author, b&w illustrations. The book is dedicated to the Black writer, Y. Andrew Roberson. An epic poem chronicling the Ashanti nation and its struggles against the British conquest and Christian influence. The five long, 'political', 'revolutionary' cantos are about the British invasion of the Gold Coast and the determined anti-colonial resistance of the Ashanti. The preface of the book was written by George S. Grant. The author migrated from Barbados to the USA and lived in California (Long Beach or Los Angeles). In the 1920s he was president (and probably the owner) of 'The Coomassie Publishing Company'.

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Subject: Literature & Fiction

Topic: Poetry

Binding: Hardcover

Special Attributes: Illustrated, 1st Edition

Year Printed: 1923

Origin: American