Amazon download books for kindle The Marrow of Tradition RTF CHM ePub 9780486838373 by Charles W. Chesnutt
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The Marrow of Tradition. Charles W. Chesnutt
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ISBN: 9780486838373 | 240 pages | 6 Mb
- The Marrow of Tradition
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Page: 240
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780486838373
- Publisher: Dover Publications
Amazon download books for kindle The Marrow of Tradition RTF CHM ePub 9780486838373 by Charles W. Chesnutt
Overview
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.