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Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck: The American Blues Novel's Unsung Pioneer
Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck was an African American woman who wrote the first blues novel in 1917. Her novel, The Octoroon: A Novel of Reconstruction, was groundbreaking for its time, and it remains an important work of...
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