Marrow of Tradition

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Culture & Heritage Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction

37 chapters9h 52mEnglish1901

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In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)

Chapters (37)

1Preface and Chapter I, At Break of Day

1178

2Chapter II, The Christening Party

1696

3Chapter III, The Editor At Work

1354

4Chapter IV, Theodore Felix

879

5Chapter V, A Journey Southward

1688

6Chapter VI, Janet

473

7Chapter VII, The Operation

1210

8Chapter VIII, The Campaign Drags

548

9Chapter IX, The White Man's "Nigger"

955

10Chapter X, Delamere Plays A Trump

1121

11Chapter XI, The Baby And The Bird

558

12Chapter XII, Another Southern Product

678

13Chapter XIII, The Cake Walk

817

14Chapter XIV, The Maunderings Of Old Mrs. Ochiltree

930

15Chapter XV, Mrs. Carteret Seeks An Explanation

810

16Chapter XVI, Ellis Takes A Trick

1475

17Chapter XVII, The Social Aspirations Of Captain McBane

1336

18Chapter XVIII, Sandy Sees his Own Ha'nt

518

19Chapter XIX, A Midnight Walk

382

20Chapter XX, A Shocking Crime

588

21Chapter XXI, The Necessity Of An Example

687

22Chapter XXII, How Not To Prevent A Lynching

909

23Chapter XXIII, Belleview

640

24Chapter XXIV, Two Southern Gentlemen

861

25Chapter XXV, The Honor Of A Family

693

26Chapter XXVI, The Discomfort Of Ellis

660

27Chapter XXVII, The Vagaries Of The Higher Law

1549

28Chapter XXVIII, In Season And Out

1266

29Chapter XXIX, Mutterings Of The Storm

682

30Chapter XXX, The Missing Papers

1571

31Chapter XXXI, The Shadow Of A Dream

731

32Chapter XXXII, The Storm Breaks

1160

33Chapter XXXIII, Into The Lion's Jaws

798

34Chapter XXXIV, The Valley Of The Shadow

515

35Chapter XXXV, Mine Enemy, Oh Mine Enemy

1427

36Chapter XXXVI, Fiat Justitia

1349

37Chapater XXXVII, The Sisters

834

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