FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JUNE 2000
Copyright © 1999 by Fanny Ellison
Introduction and Afterword copyright © 1999 by John
Callahan
Preface copyright © 2000 by Charles Johnson
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Corporation. Copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Reprinted by
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random
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Ellison, Ralph.
Juneteenth : a novel / by Ralph Ellison; edited by John F.
Callahan.
p. cm.
1. Afro-Americans—Fiction. I. Callahan, John F., 1940– . II.
Title.
PS3555.L625J86 1999
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