E. K. Means

E. K. Means is a compilation of early African American stories. Contents: The Late Figger Bush, Hoodoo Eyes, The Art of Enticing Labor and many more.

Excerpt:

Figger Bush did not look like a man who was about to die; if anything, he looked like one who ought to be killed.

He was a scarecrow sort of a negro, with ragged, flapping clothes. His coal-black face formed a background for a little, stubby, shoe-brush mustache, and Figger thought that mustache justified his existence in the world. He had not much use for his coconut head except to support a battered wool hat and grow a luxuriant crop of kinky hair. He had an insuperable aversion to all sorts of work.