The Dunbar, Paul Laurence 1872-1906 creator text utu 2006 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a novel published in 1902. When a Black butler is wrongly convicted of theft, his family is forced to flee the South for New York City. There, they encounter the harsh realities of Northern urban life as their dreams unravel. The father languishes in prison while his children fall into dangerous paths and his wife struggles to survive. This examination of early twentieth-century African American life explores how injustice and urban pressures can destroy a family. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sport_of_the_Gods Release date is 2006-02-25 Produced by Robert Ledger, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Domestic fiction African American families -- Fiction Rural-urban migration -- United States -- Fiction PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17854 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17854 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133421.0 17854