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The Marrow of Tradition (AmazonClassics Edition) (Unabridged) - Charles W. Chesnutt

By Charles W. Chesnutt

Release Date: 2021-06-01

Genre: Fiction

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Drawing on the 1898 overthrow of the Wilmington, North Carolina, government by white supremacists, Charles W. Chesnuttā€™s classic novel unmasked the racism of the post-Reconstruction South. 

William Miller is an eminent black physician determined to build a practice and advance the cause of reconciliation in his hometown during the Jim Crow era. Major Carteret is a white supremacist newspaperman sowing the seeds of unrest in an already segregated city. With county elections at stake, a murder provides all the fuel that Major Carteret needs to spark a violent revolt, with typically tragic consequences. And justice, when it comes, is only partial and incomplete. 

Written to refute the white pressā€™s distorted, propagandistic reporting of the Wilmington coup dā€™Ć©tat, and filled with a myriad of rich characters and devastating twists of fate, The Marrow of Tradition is as relevant today as it was more than a century ago.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Marrow of Tradition, this edition of The Marrow of Tradition (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

The Marrow of Tradition (AmazonClassics Edition) (Unabridged) - Charles W. Chesnutt

By Charles W. Chesnutt

Release Date: 2021-06-01

Genre: Fiction

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
Drawing on the 1898 overthrow of the Wilmington, North Carolina, government by white supremacists, Charles W. Chesnuttā€™s classic novel unmasked the racism of the post-Reconstruction South. 

William Miller is an eminent black physician determined to build a practice and advance the cause of reconciliation in his hometown during the Jim Crow era. Major Carteret is a white supremacist newspaperman sowing the seeds of unrest in an already segregated city. With county elections at stake, a murder provides all the fuel that Major Carteret needs to spark a violent revolt, with typically tragic consequences. And justice, when it comes, is only partial and incomplete. 

Written to refute the white pressā€™s distorted, propagandistic reporting of the Wilmington coup dā€™Ć©tat, and filled with a myriad of rich characters and devastating twists of fate, The Marrow of Tradition is as relevant today as it was more than a century ago.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Marrow of Tradition, this edition of The Marrow of Tradition (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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