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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) (Reprint Edition) by Pauline E. (Introduction By Richard Yarborough.) Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Richard Yarbrough Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1991 ISBN-10: 0-19-506785-1 / 0195067851 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506785-9 / 9780195067859 In Contending Forces (1900), her best-known novel and her only work of fiction published in book form during her lifetime, Pauline Hopkins uses the conventions of the sentimental romance as she seeks to encourage social change. In its pages we encounter noble heroes and virtuous heroines, exotic se |