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Helen M. Chesnutt
The driving force in Chesnutt’s life was the wish to help his race. Long before the days of the NAACP, which he later joined, and to the end of his…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
A startling look at turn-of-the-century race relations based on the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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In this novel, Charles Waddell Chesnutt explores race relations in the American South. The story follows the life of Colonel French, a wealthy white landowner who dreams of creating a…
Large Format for easy reading. Now recognized as one of the great African American masterpieces, set in the pre-war plantations of the South, it is a scathing attack on the…
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories from Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Mixed race author, essayist, political activist and lawyer (1858-1932).
This early work by Charles W. Chesnutt was originally published in 1899. It is a biography of a great leader of the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass, and contains details of…
By Charles Waddell Chesnutt
A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) found literary success with his "conjure tales" - vignettes from black folk life…
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Reassembles the Charles W Chesnutt’s work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated…
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Frederick Douglass A Biography, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation…
Frederick Douglass from Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Mixed race author, essayist, political activist and lawyer (1858-1932).
Ten wonderful stories by pioneer of African-American fiction: The Goophered Grapevine, Po’ Sandy, Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny, The Wife of His Youth, Dave’s Neckliss, The Passing of Grandison, more. Witty, charming…
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Charles W Chesnutt
But did not choose the design; let us be thankful for that. It might have been like his father’s. Bill Fetters rich and great, he mused, who would have dreamed…
Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Charles W Chesnutt,Charles W Chesnutt
Charles Chesnutt was an African American writer. Chesnutt was an early pioneer is writing about African American folklore and racial identity. He wrote about lynchings, segregation and the hypocrisy of…
A party of Northern visitors had been staying for several days at the St. James Hotel. The gentlemen of the party were concerned in a projected cotton mill, while the…
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Includes Uncollected Uncle Julius Stories.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Sean Crisden
The Marrow of Tradition (1901), was based on the 1898 race riot in Wilmington, North Carolina and depicts the problems afflicting the New South, offering an invective that criticizes the…
Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Cambridge Mass Riverside Press
Carolyn Shipman
A collection of literary criticism from four of the most influential critics of the 19th century. Includes essays on Shakespeare, Poe, and other great writers of the time. This book…
