The Scapegoat (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: About 1900
- Setting: Cadgers, a fictional American city
- Principal Characters: Robinson Asbury, Silas Bingo, Isaac Morton, Judge Davis
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: African Americans, Politics, Prisons, Racism, Protests or demonstrations, Victims, Revenge, Elections, Lawyers, Martyrs or martyrdom
- Locales: United States
The Story
The story opens with a brief survey of Robinson Asbury's rise from a bootblack to an owner of a barbershop-social club for blacks in the town of Cadgers. With this shop as a base, Asbury becomes politically visible and, with the patronage of party managers, the town's recognized black leader. Because Asbury has further ambitions, he studies law on the side and, with the help of Judge Davis, a white man and the only member of the political establishment with moral principles, is admitted to the bar. Rather than leave the black district and enter the elite class, Asbury...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Paul Laurence Dunbar (Poetry)Paul Laurence Dunbar (Short Fiction)Paul Laurence Dunbar (Dictionary of World Biography)Paul Laurence Dunbar (Identities and Issues)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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