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Benjamin Rush Davenport
A prolific American writer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he moved easily between social commentary, history, and speculative fiction. His books range from sweeping future-war tales to blunt, issue-driven works that reflect the anxieties and arguments of his era.
2 Audiobooks
Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of Ham
by Benjamin Rush Davenport
The Crime of Caste in Our Country
by Benjamin Rush Davenport
About the author
Benjamin Rush Davenport was an American author whose work appeared in the 1890s and early 1900s. Surviving bibliographic records show a wide output that included fiction, social and political writing, condensed literary collections, and popular history.
Among his best-known books are "Uncle Sam's" Cabins: A Story of American Life, Looking Foward a Century (1895), Anglo-Saxons, Onward! A Romance of the Future (1898), Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of Ham (1902), and The youths' history of the United States (1902). Reference sources particularly note him for his speculative fiction, especially Anglo-Saxons, Onward!, while library listings show how broad his publishing career really was.
Some of Davenport's work engaged directly with the racial and political debates of his time, and parts of it are now mainly of historical interest rather than simple entertainment. For today's listeners, he is best approached as a vivid example of a turn-of-the-century author whose books capture both the energy and the prejudices of the world he wrote in.