Imperium in Imperio
Sutton Griggs,A.J. Verdelle
Imperium in Imperio
Sutton Griggs,A.J. Verdelle
Imperium in Imperio (1899) is the story of two men one black and one mulatto who grow up in a racist America. The dark-skinned
Belton, a conservative assimilationist, attends college, goes to Louisiana to advocate voting rights for blacks, and barely survives a lynch
mob. The lighter-skinned Bernard is traumatized by the suicide of his beautiful black sweetheart, Viola, whose dying wish convinces
Bernard to become a staunch nationalist and fight for a separation of the black and white races. Both men join a radical movement whose
aim is to establish Texas as an all-black country, separate from the rest of the United States. The narrator, BerI Trout, tells the story of
IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO (\“a nation within a nation\”) on the eve of his own execution. Tomorrow, he will be put to death by his fellow
nationalists for exposing their radical plot, and causing the uprising to fail.
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