Alexander Dumas.
Fredrick Douglas said that he wore his hair like that because he was inspired by Dumas.
Many black folks, especially during the Harlem renaissance, listed Dumas as their inspiration with them associating The Count of Monte Cristo being their favorite books. The story is definitely something a lot of black people on an emotional level can relate to as it deals with a man wrongly accused and unjustly imprisioned and wronged. Given how many black men had the same story it was understandable.
Also Dumas wrote that book based on what happened to his father who was imprisoned wrongly and discriminated against after being dismissed from the French army. Napoleon did not like his father due to his popularity possibility eclipsing napaleon's among the troops.
Alexander Dumas father.
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