Short Fiction Edwards, Harry Stillwell: Eneas Africanus. v1. 12 Nov 2015

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Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855–1938) was an American journalist, novelist, and poet, born at Macon, Georgia. He studied law at Mercer University, Macon, and graduated in 1877. He was assistant editor and editor of Macon journals (1881–1888), gaining distinction as a writer of dialect stories.

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Dear to the hearts of the Southerners, young and old, is the vanishing type, conspicuous in Eneas of this record; and as in a sidelight herein are seen the Southerners themselves, kind of heart, tolerant and appreciative of the humor and pathos of the Negro’s life. Eneas would have been arrested in any country other than the South. In the South he could have traveled his life out as the guest of his “white folks.” Is the story true? Everybody says it is.

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