Books on the history of Black Prizefighters

[Gmpk56]

Years ago I read a book by Kevin R Smith titled Black Genesis The History of the Black Prizefighter 1760-1870. It was so good I looked for other books he may have written and found The Sundowners The History of the Black Prizefighter 1870-1930 Volume II Part One. The book itself is not much to look at and was obviously done on the cheap but it contains a wealth of information and fighters' records you're just not going to find anywhere else. It lists the fighters alphabetically and goes from A to G and that's my problem. The title clearly states that there there is a Part 2 and more than likely a Part 3. Do they exist, were they ever published? I've never been able to find a mention of them let alone seen them for sale. Since the 1st book was done on the cheap I'm hoping that maybe future books were published through a vanity publishing company and are just hard to find. Hopefully, someone here has been lucky to come across them and help me put an end to a decades-long search. It's not even that I can't find them that bothers me the most. The possibility that they don't exist is a tragedy for us all.

[QueensburyRules]

Years ago I read a book by Kevin R Smith titled Black Genesis The History of the Black Prizefighter 1760-1870. It was so good I looked for other books he may have written and found The Sundowners The History of the Black Prizefighter 1870-1930 Volume II Part One. The book itself is not much to look at and was obviously done on the cheap but it contains a wealth of information and fighters' records you're just not going to find anywhere else. It lists the fighters alphabetically and goes from A to G and that's my problem. The title clearly states that there there is a Part 2 and more than likely a Part 3. Do they exist, were they ever published? I've never been able to find a mention of them let alone seen them for sale. Since the 1st book was done on the cheap I'm hoping that maybe future books were published through a vanity publishing company and are just hard to find. Hopefully, someone here has been lucky to come across them and help me put an end to a decades-long search. It's not even that I can't find them that bothers me the most. The possibility that they don't exist is a tragedy for us all.

- - Boxrec keeps the most reliable boxing records on the planet for 2 decades now. You can look em up!!!

[Gmpk56]

Thanks I'm well aware of boxrec. There's a ton of fighters in the book not found anywhere else especially the late 19th & early 20th century fighters. There's also a biography on each one. The amount of research that went Into it is astounding. It really is a shame if the other books don't exist.