Silas X. Floyd's Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young

by Silas Xavier Floyd

EN·~4 hours·88 chapters

Chapters

88 total

SILAS X. FLOYD’S SHORT STORIES for COLORED PEOPLE BOTH OLD AND YOUNG

0:42

PREFACE.

1:55

PUBLISHER’S NOTE.

2:24

THE COWARDLY HERO.

8:06

THE GREAT SPELLING MATCH.

9:40

THE TRUTH ABOUT LUCK.

3:17

AN EVENING AT HOME.

3:19

THE MAKING OF A MAN.

4:13

FALSE PRIDE.

4:10

THANKSGIVING AT PINEY GROVE.

11:16

Description

"The cover image (the dust jacket of the source publication) and possibly some of the illustrations are for a combined edition of two different books; this e-text only contains the Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young." --Transcriber's Notes

Details

Full title

Silas X. Floyd's Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young Entertaining, Uplifting, Interesting

Language

Duration

~4 hours (280K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by hekula03, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2019-11-25

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Didactic fiction Short stories, American African Americans -- Fiction African Americans -- Juvenile fiction

About the author

Silas Xavier Floyd

1869–1923

An influential voice in Augusta, Georgia, he built his career around teaching, preaching, and journalism. His work blended community leadership with clear-eyed writing about Black life in the South at the turn of the twentieth century.

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