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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Ralph Ellison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | That Ralph Ellison was born in the former Territory, both Indian and western frontier, will become a significant part of his personality and will contribute a perspective to his writing that, along with his distinctive style, will position him among the great writers of the United States. |
 | | As yet, the record is not clear on the disposition of Alfred Ellison after the widow sold her holdings to David Aiken, a wealthy and notoriously violent and anti-abolitionist cotton farmer in Abbeville, South Carolina. |
 | | Ralph Ellisons father, Lewis Ellison, was Alfred and Harriet Ellisons fourth child and their first son. |
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