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The Marrow of Tradition
Charles W. Chesnutt
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About this book
Thirty years after the Civil War and the effect of Reconstruction, the town of Wilmington, N.C. faces a growing threat as white supremacists seek to stimy the new social and political mobility gained by the newly-enfranchised black citizens.
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- Titlepage
- Imprint
- Epigraph
- The Marrow of Tradition
- I: At Break of Day
- II: The Christening Party
- III: The Editor at Work
- IV: Theodore Felix
- V: A Journey Southward
- VI: Janet
- VII: The Operation
- VIII: The Campaign Drags
- IX: A White Man’s “Nigger”
- X: Delamere Plays a Trump
- XI: The Baby and the Bird
- XII: Another Southern Product
- XIII: The Cakewalk
- XIV: The Maunderings of Old Mrs. Ochiltree
- XV: Mrs. Carteret Seeks an Explanation
- XVI: Ellis Takes a Trick
- XVII: The Social Aspirations of Captain McBane
- XVIII: Sandy Sees His Own Ha’nt
- XIX: A Midnight Walk
- XX: A Shocking Crime
- XXI: The Necessity of an Example
- XXII: How Not to Prevent a Lynching
- XXIII: Belleview
- XXIV: Two Southern Gentlemen
- XXV: The Honor of a Family
- XXVI: The Discomfort of Ellis
- XXVII: The Vagaries of the Higher Law
- XXVIII: In Season and Out
- XXIX: Muttering of the Storm
- XXX: The Missing Papers
- XXXI: The Shadow of a Dream
- XXXII: The Storm Breaks
- XXIII: Into the Lion’s Jaws
- XXXIV: The Valley of the Shadow
- XXXV: “Mine Enemy, O Mine Enemy!”
- XXXVI: Fiat Justitia
- XXXVII: The Sisters
- Colophon
- Uncopyright
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Edition contributors
- The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
- Charles W. Chesnutt (aut)
- Enoch Wood Perry (art)
- Jacob Zaengle (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
- Weijia Cheng (pfr)