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William Seraile. Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings of John Edward Bruce.(Book Review)
From:
African American Review
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June 22, 2003| Author:
Gruesser, John C.
| COPYRIGHT 2003 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 280 pp. $34.00.
An overview of John Edward Bruce's life reads like a thrilling work of fiction. Born a slave in Maryland in 1856, he met Charles Dickens, Martin Delany, and Henry Highland Garnet as a child and claimed to have delivered secret messages for John Wilkes Booth and seen Lincoln's corpse shortly after the assassination. In 1874 he began working as a journalist, a profession which brought him great fame in the last two decades...