- Marrow of Tradition
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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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.
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- Chapters
- Preface and Chapter I, At Break of Day
- Chapter II, The Christening Party
- Chapter III, The Editor At Work
- Chapter IV, Theodore Felix
- Chapter V, A Journey Southward
- Chapter VI, Janet
- Chapter VII, The Operation
- Chapter VIII, The Campaign Drags
- Chapter IX, The White Man's "Nigger"
- Chapter X, Delamere Plays A Trump
- Chapter XI, The Baby And The Bird
- Chapter XII, Another Southern Product
- Chapter XIII, The Cake Walk
- Chapter XIV, The Maunderings Of Old Mrs. Ochiltree
- Chapter XV, Mrs. Carteret Seeks An Explanation
- Chapter XVI, Ellis Takes A Trick
- Chapter XVII, The Social Aspirations Of Captain McBane
- Chapter XVIII, Sandy Sees his Own Ha'nt
- Chapter XIX, A Midnight Walk
- Chapter XX, A Shocking Crime
- Chapter XXI, The Necessity Of An Example
- Chapter XXII, How Not To Prevent A Lynching
- Chapter XXIII, Belleview
- Chapter XXIV, Two Southern Gentlemen
- Chapter XXV, The Honor Of A Family
- Chapter XXVI, The Discomfort Of Ellis
- Chapter XXVII, The Vagaries Of The Higher Law
- Chapter XXVIII, In Season And Out
- Chapter XXIX, Mutterings Of The Storm
- Chapter XXX, The Missing Papers
- Chapter XXXI, The Shadow Of A Dream
- Chapter XXXII, The Storm Breaks
- Chapter XXXIII, Into The Lion's Jaws
- Chapter XXXIV, The Valley Of The Shadow
- Chapter XXXV, Mine Enemy, Oh Mine Enemy
- Chapter XXXVI, Fiat Justitia
- Chapater XXXVII, The Sisters
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