LIME KILN CLUB 1882 AFRICAN AMERICAN SATIRE M QUAD MINSTREL DETROIT ILLUSTRATED

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Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club: Being the Regular Proceedings of the Regular Club for the Last Three Years

QUAD, M. and Brother Gardner (pseudonym of Charles Bertrand Lewis)

Published by Belford, Clarke & Co, Chicago, 1882. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, front hinge starting but holding well, previous owner’s stamp to verso off ffep and label to spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, 300 pages plus adverts. 

The "Lime Kiln Club" was a fictional fraternity of African American men, created by journalist/humorist Charles Bertrand Lewis for episodic newspaper pieces geared toward working-class readers. Written in dialect, the pieces depict the Club's members discussing politics and current events, negatively satirizing and stereotyping American blacks as ignorant and inadvertently humorous.

Loc: C2

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Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club: Being the Regular Proceedings of the Regular Club for the Last Three Years

QUAD, M. and Brother Gardner (pseudonym of Charles Bertrand Lewis)

Published by Belford, Clarke & Co, Chicago, 1882. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, front hinge starting but holding well, previous owner’s stamp to verso off ffep and label to spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, 300 pages plus adverts. 

The "Lime Kiln Club" was a fictional fraternity of African American men, created by journalist/humorist Charles Bertrand Lewis for episodic newspaper pieces geared toward working-class readers. Written in dialect, the pieces depict the Club's members discussing politics and current events, negatively satirizing and stereotyping American blacks as ignorant and inadvertently humorous.

Loc: C2