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The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man is his most famous book and it recounts the life of a biracial man born in a small town in Georgia just after the Civil War. He benefits from his black mother's nurturing and guidance, his absent white father's financial support of them both, and his innate intelligence and musical abilities. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (/) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an incredible book. Written in , it is from author/poet James Weldon Johnson, perhaps most known for his verse sermons God’s Trombones. This book recounts the life of a fictional narrator—although some would say that narrator is very close to Johnson himself—who tells of his life from childhood to fatherhood.

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