"True chivalry respects all womanhood": Militant Feminism, Fiction, and the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in Hanover; or the Persecution of the Lowly.

The article discusses the themes of militant Black feminism, fiction, and dispelling historical narratives in the book "Hanover; or The Persecution of the Lowly. A Story of the Wilmington Massacre" by African American journalist David Bryant Fulton. Fulton, who wrote the novel under the pseudonym Jack Thorne, challenges allegations in the press of "negro domination" that were used to justify the violent political coup that occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898 by southern Democrat white supremacists. The novel significantly employs the voices of Wilmington's militant Black feminists to introduce readers to the town's diverse political opinions and heroism exhibited by these fictional women.