The Negro Question.

CABLE, George W.

$2,800.00

Item Number: 145443

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

First edition of this key piece of social reform. Duodecimo, original maroon cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, “To Frederick H. Hitchcock from G.W. Cable Northampton Mass. Aug 25, 1891.” In near fine condition with some rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

George Washington Cable was an American writer and reformer, best known for his works of fiction set in his native New Orleans and the surrounding region. Born on October 12, 1844, in New Orleans, Cable's writing often explored themes of race, class, and social justice in the post-Civil War South. He was one of the first Southern authors to realistically depict the complexities of race relations during Reconstruction. Late in his career, he turned from writing popular novels to impassioned works of social reform such as 'The Negro Question,' which limited his literary career in the South despite his initial popularity.