Charles W. Chesnutt

About The Author

Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African-American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South of America. He worked with W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington in the cause of emancipation and equality for African Americans.

Series by the Author

Books by Charles W. Chesnutt

The Conjure Woman (new edition)
By Charles W. Chesnutt
Foreword by Sandra M. Grayson
An early slave narrative, a skilfully woven satire on the stereotypes of plantation life and the apparently beneficent white owner. Told as a series of gentle fables, in the style of Aesop.

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