The Marrow of Tradition

Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
ISBN: 9780140186864

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.

Publisher: Penguin
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: Fiction / Historical, Fiction / Classics

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