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Benjamin Rush Davenport
Best remembered for provocative late-19th-century fiction and social commentary, this American writer used popular storytelling to argue about inequality, race, nationalism, and the future. His books range from speculative romances to blunt political critique, making him an unusual and sometimes challenging voice from 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 active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Reliable catalog and reference sources confirm works including "Uncle Sam's" Cabins: A Story of American Life, Looking Forward a Century (1895), Anglo-Saxons, Onward! A Romance of the Future (1898), and The youths' history of the United States (1902).
He is especially noted in science-fiction reference sources for Anglo-Saxons, Onward!, a future-war novel. Other surviving books linked to him, including The Crime of Caste in Our Country and Blood Will Tell, show a writer drawn to big social questions and to the tensions around class, race, and power in the United States of his time.
Little biographical detail appears to be readily confirmed from the sources consulted, so the picture that survives is mostly through his books. Even so, the range of his subjects suggests a writer who wanted fiction and nonfiction alike to spark argument, not just entertainment.