Book Title: In Old Plantation Days

Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar

Book Description: In Old Plantation Days (1903) by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a collection of short stories that focuses on the stereotypical portrayal of slaves. Dunbar received both criticism and anger for his stereotypical depictions of slaves as "obedient workers happy to spend their lives in service of their benevolent owner."

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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an African-American novelist, poet, and dramatist during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In Old Plantation Days (1903) by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a collection of short stories that focuses on the stereotypical portrayal of slaves. Dunbar received both criticism and anger for his stereotypical depictions of slaves as “obedient workers happy to spend their lives in service of their benevolent owner.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Title
In Old Plantation Days
Author
Paul Laurence Dunbar
License

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This work (In Old Plantation Days by Paul Laurence Dunbar) is free of known copyright restrictions.

The Librivox recordings are also free of known copyright restrictions. All other material in the front and back matter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license unless otherwise noted.

Cover image, Tobacco Plantation, by J.W. Orr, Public Domain, from Wikimedia Commons.

Publisher
Ryerson University
Publication Date
February 15, 2022