Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Negro Problem
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This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
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This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…
The Conjure Woman
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Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…
The Marrow of Tradition
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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 ra…
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
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Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
The House Behind the Cedars
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In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the …
The Colonel's Dream
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In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…
Frederick Douglass A Biography
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Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America's great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, stat…
The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
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From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…
Short Story Collection Vol. 102
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Here we present the 102nd Short Story Collection, comprised of stories selected by Librivox readers. Algernon Blackwood, Saki and Anton Chek…