Unlike the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob violence, and moral compromise.This important collection contains all the stories in his two published volumes, The Conjure Woman…
Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt · Original publisher: Penguin Books (New York, 1992)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1899 (The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth); full text of the original works freely available at Project Gutenberg. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `9409-conjure-tales-and-stories-of-the-color-line.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
