Unfettered - A Novel

When a brutal lynching occurs in the rural South, the Black community flees en masse for the city. Newlyweds Harry and Morlene, bonded in tragedy, arrive both hopeful and weary, longing for a chance at life. When Morlene meets Dorlan, a local activist, she begins to long for something else entirely. Unfettered: A Novel is a novel by Sutton E. Griggs.

About the author

Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was an African American novelist, activist, and Baptist minister. Born in Chatfield, Texas, Griggs was the second of eight children. His father, Rev. Allen R. Griggs, was a former slave who became an influential minister and founded the first newspaper and high school for African Americans in Texas. Upon graduating from Bishop College and Richmond Theological Seminary, Griggs followed in his father’s footsteps to become a pastor in Berkley, Virginia, where he married Emma Williams in 1897. In 1899, while serving as pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in East Nashville, Griggs published his novel Imperium in Imperio, a powerful story of a separate African American state. Recognized as a pioneering work of utopian literature and science fiction, the novel launched Griggs’ literary career and allowed him to open the Orion Publishing Company in 1901. Devoted to alleviating social issues within the Black community, Griggs supported the Niagara Movement and the NAACP, educated himself through the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, and advocated for both separatism and integration in his literary works. Towards the end of his life, having published several novels and dozens of political and religious pamphlets, Griggs devoted himself to his work in the Baptist Church, serving for 19 years as a pastor in Memphis and for one year as president of the American Baptist Theological Seminary.

Product details

• Authors: Sutton E Griggs, Sutton E. Griggs
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2021
• EAN: 9781513296814
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-9681-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Black Narratives; Mint Editions (Black Narratives); Black Narratives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Political, Narrative theme: Politics, Social and cultural history, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, c 1900 to c 1909, Relating to African American / Black American people, Classic fiction: general and literary