text: At the climax of this novel, a shield-toting, fur-clad man on a black horse tries to get the main character hanged.
full_question: At the climax of this novel, a shield-toting, fur-clad man on a black horse tries to get the main character hanged. Chapter 5 of this novel is occupied with a blind old man’s speech about “the Founder.” After bringing a wealthy man to a shack where a sharecropper describe how he impregnated his daughter, then taking him to a brothel where he passes out, the protagonist of this novel is expelled from school. This novel’s narrator describes how he came to live in a brightly-lit basement after working as a spokesperson for the Brotherhood. For 10 points, name this magnum opus of Ralph Ellison.
first_sentence: At the climax of this novel, a shield-toting, fur-clad man on a black horse tries to get the main character hanged.