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The Marrow of Tradition
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Series: Belt Revivals
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN13: 9781948742344
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Mar 26 2019
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The classic, fictionalized account of a white supremacist insurrection in Reconstruction Era North Carolina--with a new introduction by Wiley Cash.
On November 10, 1898, a mob of 400 people rampaged through the streets of Wilmington, North Carolina. In a violent reaction to the political power gained by African Americans during Reconstruction, the mob killed as many as sixty citizens, overthrew elected leaders, and installed a white supremacist government. The Wilmington Insurrection--also known as the Wilmington Race Riots and the Wilmington Massacre--was the only successful coup d'etat on American soil.
The Marrow of Tradition is a fictionalized account of this important yet overlooked event. Charles W. Chesnutt, a North Carolina native and America's first black professional writer, narrates the story of Wellington North Carolina through the eyes of William Miller, a Black doctor, and his wife, Janet, who is both Black and the unclaimed daughter of a prominent white businessman.
With these and dozens of other characters, including a Black domestic servant whose speech is rendered in vernacular dialect, Chesnutt conjures a nuanced portrait of Reconstruction--a turbulent time of historic progress and vicious backlash.15 different editions
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