Birthright
Subtitle: a novel
By: by T.S. Stribling, illustrated by F. Luis Mora.
Publisher: The Century Co.
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Description: The protagonist of this novel is an educated mulatto male who tries to survive in a small Southern town in the early twentieth century. In a biography of Stribling, William E. Smith states: "Many years after its publication, Stribling identified his work as 'the first realistic novel of Negroes written in this country since Opie Read produced My Young Master.'" In 1924, the famous black director Oscar Micheaux adapted Birthright into a silent film.