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(LEWIS, Charles Bertrand). Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club: Being the Regular Proceedings of the Club for the Last Three Years... By M. Quad and Brother Gardner (pseud).
Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1890. Reprint (first published 1882 by Belford Clarke). 8vo., original grey/green cloth decorated in black, 300pp. Cheap paper a bit browned around the perimeter otherwise a fine copy.
The Lime-Kiln Club was a fictitious fraternal organization of African-Americans created by writer and journalist Charles Lewis in the latter part of the 19th century, for publication by the Detroit Free Press. Very much of its time, the columns concerning the Lime-Kiln Club featured negative stereotypes of African Americans, which the editors believed would appeal to “working-class Democrats during a racially charged era.” While Lewis ceased writing the column in 1891 when he moved to the New York World, the original columns were adapted for vaudeville performances and in 1913 were adapted to film with the title “Lime Kiln Field Day”.
(LEWIS, Charles Bertrand). Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club: Being the Regular Proceedings of the Club for the Last Three Years... By M. Quad and Brother Gardner (pseud). Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1890. Reprint (first published 1882 by Belford Clarke). 8vo., original grey/green cloth decorated in black, 300pp. Cheap paper a bit browned around the perimeter otherwise a fine copy.
The Lime-Kiln Club was a fictitious fraternal organization of African-Americans created by writer and journalist Charles Lewis in the latter part of the 19th century, for publication by the Detroit Free Press. Very much of its time, the columns concerning the Lime-Kiln Club featured negative stereotypes of African Americans, which the editors believed would appeal to “working-class Democrats during a racially charged era.” While Lewis ceased writing the column in 1891 when he moved to the New York World, the original columns were adapted for vaudeville performances and in 1913 were adapted to film with the title “Lime Kiln Field Day”.
