Sutton E. Griggs

About The Author

Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933) is a key voice in African-American literature, history and proto-science fiction. An author, minister, newspaper publisher and social activist, he wrote social and religious tracts as well as numerous books, such as his novels, the famous Imperium in Imperio (1899) and The Hindered Hand (1905).

Books by Sutton E. Griggs

Imperium in Imperio
By Sutton E. Griggs
Introduction by Kalenda Eaton
A chilling tale of living dystopia in the Jim Crow era and a utopian shadow state that exposes the conflict between loyalty, morality and the forces of poverty, racism and supremacism.

Written in 1899, Grigg's moving, terrifying book describes the Jim Crow era life of a black man in...
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