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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Books by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Conjure Woman
The Conjure Woman is a collection of seven short stories by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, set in the post-Civil War South. The stories feature a white carpetbagger, John, and an ex-slave, Uncle Julius McAdoo, who narrates the internal story lines. Throug...
Marrow of Tradition
Set against the backdrop of the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre, The Marrow of Tradition is a powerful and unflinching exploration of the deep-seated racism that permeated the South during the post-Reconstruction era. Charles W. Chesnutt del...
Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Charles W. Chesnutt's *The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line* explores the complex social realities of the post-Reconstruction South. Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow laws, these stories delve into the lives of African America...
Colonel's Dream
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace the...
Frederick Douglass A Biography
Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America's great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, statesman, writer, orator, all around social reformer and intellectual of our time. He was born in 1818 in the sta...