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Cover: The Marrow of Tradition, 1st Edition by Charles W. Chesnutt; Edited by Nancy Bentely and Sandra Gunning
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The Marrow of Tradition

First  Edition|©2002  Charles W. Chesnutt; Edited by Nancy Bentely and Sandra Gunning

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Explore caste, gender, and race after Reconstruction, The Marrow of Tradtion combines original sources from influential people during the time period with the original novel about racial confict in a Southern town. Postbellum laws, lynching, and the 1898 Wilmington riot are covered to highlight the culture of segregation experienced during this time.

Contents

Table of Contents

  About the Series
  About This Volume
  Illustrations
    
PART ONE
    
    The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text
    Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background
    Chronology of Chesnutts Life and Times
    A Note on the Text
    The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin edition]
    
    
PART TWO
    The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts

    
  1. Caste, Race and Gender After Reconstruction
       Philip Bruce, from The Platinum Negro as a Freeman
       Tom Watson, from "The Negro Question in the South"
       William Dean Howells, from An Imperative Duty
       Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Speech" from Up from Slavery
       Charles W. Chesnutt, from "The Future American"
       W.E.B. DuBois, from "The Conservation of Race"
       Theodore Roosevelt, from "Birth Reform, from the Positive, not the Negative Side"
       Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics
       Fannie Barrier Williams, from "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Woman"
       Roscoe Conklin Bruce, from "Service by the Educated Negro"
    
  2. Law and Lawlessness
       Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution
       George Washington Cable, from "The Freedmans Case in Equity"
       Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): excerpts from brief by Albion Tourgee, majority opinion by Justice Henry Billings Brown, and the dissenting opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan
       "Suffrage and Eligibility to Office," Article VI, amendment to the North Carolina State Constitution
       Ida B. Wells, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases
       "Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated," Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post February 8, 1904
       "Victims Family Begs to See Negro Burned," Atlanta Constitution October 2, 1905
       "Belleville is Complacent Over Horrible Lynching,: New York Herald June 9, 1903
       Jane Addams, from "Respect for Law," Independent
       Ray Stannard Baker, from "A Race Riot and After," Following the Color Line
       George H. White, from a speech before the United States House of Representatives, February 23, 1900
    
  3. The Wilmington Riot
       Alexander Manly, editorial printed in Literary Digest, 1898
       Rebecca Latimer Fulton, speech reported in The Wilmington Star
       From the "White Mans Declaration of Independence" (or, Wilmington Declaration of Independence), from Appletons Cyclopaedia
       Anonymous letter to William McKinley, 13 November 1898
       Charles Chesnutt, from letter to Walter Hines Page, 1898
       Jane Cronly, "An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C."
    
  4. Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction
       Wilmington Messenger article, rpt in Raleigh New and Observer, 8 September 1899
       Photograph of "Old Plantation" Midway booth at the 1896 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia
       From The Cotton States and International Exposition program
       Tom Fletcher, from 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business
       "Old" and "New" Negro photographs juxtaposed, from Frances Benjamin Johnstons The Hampton album.
       Charles Chesnutt, Literary Memoranda
       Charles Chesnutt, "Po Sandy"
       Thomas Dixon, from The Leopards Spots
       Williams Dean Howells, from "A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction" North American Review
    
    Bibliography

Authors

Charles W. Chesnutt


Nancy Bentley

Nancy Bentley is Undergraduate English Chair at the University of Pennsylvania.


Sandra Gunning

Sandra Gunning is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.


Explore caste, gender, and race after Reconstruction, The Marrow of Tradtion combines original sources from influential people during the time period with the original novel about racial confict in a Southern town. Postbellum laws, lynching, and the 1898 Wilmington riot are covered to highlight the culture of segregation experienced during this time.

Table of Contents

  About the Series
  About This Volume
  Illustrations
    
PART ONE
    
    The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text
    Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background
    Chronology of Chesnutts Life and Times
    A Note on the Text
    The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin edition]
    
    
PART TWO
    The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts

    
  1. Caste, Race and Gender After Reconstruction
       Philip Bruce, from The Platinum Negro as a Freeman
       Tom Watson, from "The Negro Question in the South"
       William Dean Howells, from An Imperative Duty
       Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Speech" from Up from Slavery
       Charles W. Chesnutt, from "The Future American"
       W.E.B. DuBois, from "The Conservation of Race"
       Theodore Roosevelt, from "Birth Reform, from the Positive, not the Negative Side"
       Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics
       Fannie Barrier Williams, from "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Woman"
       Roscoe Conklin Bruce, from "Service by the Educated Negro"
    
  2. Law and Lawlessness
       Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution
       George Washington Cable, from "The Freedmans Case in Equity"
       Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): excerpts from brief by Albion Tourgee, majority opinion by Justice Henry Billings Brown, and the dissenting opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan
       "Suffrage and Eligibility to Office," Article VI, amendment to the North Carolina State Constitution
       Ida B. Wells, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases
       "Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated," Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post February 8, 1904
       "Victims Family Begs to See Negro Burned," Atlanta Constitution October 2, 1905
       "Belleville is Complacent Over Horrible Lynching,: New York Herald June 9, 1903
       Jane Addams, from "Respect for Law," Independent
       Ray Stannard Baker, from "A Race Riot and After," Following the Color Line
       George H. White, from a speech before the United States House of Representatives, February 23, 1900
    
  3. The Wilmington Riot
       Alexander Manly, editorial printed in Literary Digest, 1898
       Rebecca Latimer Fulton, speech reported in The Wilmington Star
       From the "White Mans Declaration of Independence" (or, Wilmington Declaration of Independence), from Appletons Cyclopaedia
       Anonymous letter to William McKinley, 13 November 1898
       Charles Chesnutt, from letter to Walter Hines Page, 1898
       Jane Cronly, "An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C."
    
  4. Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction
       Wilmington Messenger article, rpt in Raleigh New and Observer, 8 September 1899
       Photograph of "Old Plantation" Midway booth at the 1896 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia
       From The Cotton States and International Exposition program
       Tom Fletcher, from 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business
       "Old" and "New" Negro photographs juxtaposed, from Frances Benjamin Johnstons The Hampton album.
       Charles Chesnutt, Literary Memoranda
       Charles Chesnutt, "Po Sandy"
       Thomas Dixon, from The Leopards Spots
       Williams Dean Howells, from "A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction" North American Review
    
    Bibliography
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Charles W. Chesnutt


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Nancy Bentley

Nancy Bentley is Undergraduate English Chair at the University of Pennsylvania.


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Sandra Gunning

Sandra Gunning is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.


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