Imperium in Imperio

In October of the year 1867 the year in which our story begins a white man by the name of Tiberius Gracchus Leonard had arrived in Winchester and was employed as teacher of the school for colored children.

Author of the Preface:
A. J. Verdelle, lecturer in the creative writing program at Princeton, is the author of The Good Negress.

Introducer:
Cornel West, University Professor of Religion at Princeton, is the author of Race Matters and The American Evasion of Philosophy, and is the co-author of The Future of American Progressivism.