Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Christmas-Night in the Quarters
Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris acknowledged their debt to Russell, and though Dubose Heyward, Roark Bradford, and Julia Peterkin have struck an original note in fiction about the Negro, no doubt they too would welcome the whimsical Mississippi poet of whom it was said: He couldn' a' talked so nachal Bout niggers in sorrow and joy.
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