Victor Sejour

Sejour went to Paris to further his education at the age of nineteen. He stayed in Paris and became fairly well known dramatist and wrote eight plays, between the period of 1848 – 1858. All of his plays were written in the same styles of Victor Hugo and Shakespeare.

Victor Sejour wrote, Les Retour de Napoleon, which expressed his admiration for Napoleon. Les Cenelles, the first anthology of African American poetry, which was written in French, was also known as a great collection of Creole literature, Jew of Seville (1844), and The Fortune-Teller (1859). Sejour also wrote a drama, Richard III (1852) and a short story called, Le Mulatre (“The Mulatto,” 1837), which was known to be the earliest known short story to be published in English, by an African American.

The Mulatto begins with a man telling a sto

A few years later the lady had passed away and left him a small leather pouch which contained a portrait of the boy’s father. He made a promise to his mother that he would not open this pouch until his twenty-fifth birthday.

She was sentenced to be killed by hanging. Georges begged and pleated for his wife to live. Alfred would not listed to Georges so he stated when he realized that Alfred was not listening to him,

Georges was a “well-regarded gentleman” who wouldn’t hurt a soul. Georges like Alfred he esteemed him. He protected him from some band of thieves. Georges went to protect him and asked Alfred to leave before the men came to kill him. Not only did Alfred not leave he also believed that Georges was sent to kill him with the thieves. The men arrived and Georges received some violent activity to his body. He did manage to kill and protect Alfred.

“What! You can leave her to be killed, to have her throat cut,

to be murdered, when you know her to be innocent. When, like a coward, you wanted to seduce her. I am saying that you’re a scoundrel. If she die…she will die because she didn’t prostitute herself to you…because you’re white…you are her master…you lying coward. You talk of victim and executioner, wretch, So that means she dies…her…my Zeila…but you should know that her life is

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