The Marrow of Tradition
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The Marrow of Tradition

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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The Marrow of Tradition

About this book

In this landmark tale, one of the great American novelists exposed the harsh dimensions of Southern prejudice during post–Reconstruction era. Charles W. Chesnutt traces the intertwined lives of two prominent families: one headed by a newspaper editor and flagrant white supremacist; the other by the founder of a hospital for African Americans, whose biracial wife is the unacknowledged half-sister of the editor's wife. Their personal dramas unfold amid an atmosphere of public hysteria that erupts in a massacre — one based on an actual incident.
The 1898 race riot of Wilmington, North Carolina, left a considerable number of African Americans dead and expelled thousands more from their homes. Chesnutt drew upon survivors' accounts, including those of members of his own family, for an authentic retelling of the facts. His powerful and passionate exploration of how miscegenation, social rank, and the concept of white supremacy gave rise to Jim Crow laws provides an insightful analysis of racial conflict at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780486838373
eBook ISBN
9780486845968
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Note
  5. Contents
  6. I. At Break of Day
  7. II. The Christening Party
  8. III. The Editor at Work
  9. IV. Theodore Felix
  10. V. A Journey Southward
  11. VI. Janet
  12. VII. The Operation
  13. VIII. The Campaign Drags
  14. IX. A White Man’s “Nigger”
  15. X. Delamere Plays a Trump
  16. XI. The Baby and the Bird
  17. XII. Another Southern Product
  18. XIII. The Cakewalk
  19. XIV. The Maunderings of Old Mrs. Ochiltree
  20. XV. Mrs. Carteret Seeks an Explanation
  21. XVI. Ellis Takes a Trick
  22. XVII. The Social Aspirations of Captain McBane
  23. XVIII. Sandy Sees His Own Ha’nt
  24. XIX. A Midnight Walk
  25. XX. A Shocking Crime
  26. XXI. The Necessity of an Example
  27. XXII. How Not to Prevent a Lynching
  28. XXIII. Belleview
  29. XXIV. Two Southern Gentlemen
  30. XXV. The Honor of a Family
  31. XXVI. The Discomfort of Ellis
  32. XXVII. The Vagaries of the Higher Law
  33. XXVIII. In Season and Out
  34. XXIX. Mutterings of the Storm
  35. XXX. The Missing Papers
  36. XXXI. The Shadow of a Dream
  37. XXXII. The Storm Breaks
  38. XXXIII. Into the Lion’s Jaws
  39. XXXIV. The Valley of the Shadow
  40. XXXV. “Mine Enemy, O Mine Enemy!”
  41. XXXVI. Fiat Justitia
  42. XXXVII. The Sisters