Black Authors in the Public Domain

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Harriet E. Wilson

It isn’t until you start researching black authors, artists, poets and musicians in the public domain that you realise just how ‘beyond the pale’ the shade is.

Not that it’s a reflection of the public domain per se, but rather of the lack of representation of the black community in the arts, especially when we think back to the time-frame or era which would put their work in the public domain now.

Restrictions imposed upon them by lack of education, lack of spon...