Who Is Arna Bontempts

​Arna
Bontempts
created a new genre in
African-American literature?

​Who is Arna Bontemps?

​a poet, novelist, historian, anthologist and archivist, he enriched and preserved black cultural heritage.

In 1936 Arna Bontemps published his historical novel
BLACK THUNDER.





The revolt was led by Gabriel a character depicted in the novel 'Black Thunder'

​Agricultural Labor and Survival is the theme of the poem 'A Black Man Talks of Reaping'.

Arna Bontemps pass away in 1973, at his home in Nashville, from a myocardial infarction (or a heart attack) while working on his collection of short fiction in The Old South (1973).