The Marrow of Tradition

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ISBN-10: 0140186867
ISBN-13: 9780140186864
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 02/01/1993
Dimensions: 7.82" L, 5.15" W, 0.74" H

The Marrow of Tradition

byCharles W Chesnutt
Introduction by: Eric J Sundquist
Notes by: Eric J Sundquist

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Overview

One of the most significant novels in American literature, “The Marrow of Tradition” is based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, Massacre of 1898. Called a “race riot” by the inflammatory Southern press and engineered by white Democrats who had seen their political slip into the hands of Republicans, many of whom were black, it was in fact a coup that restored power to the Democrats by subverting the principles of free democratic election. Some of Charles Chestnutt’s relatives lived through the violence, and their accounts inspired this powerful and passionate novel.

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Chesnutt was tremendously explicit in representing the violence and his own anger. Today it reads as one of the more enduring novels of the era. –Richard Yarborough, UCLA
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Details

ISBN-10: 0140186867
ISBN-13: 9780140186864
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 02/01/1993
Dimensions: 7.82" L, 5.15" W, 0.74" H
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