The Marrow Of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
Set in a fictional North Carolina city at the end of the nineteenth century, this story follows a Black physician striving to serve his community and a powerful white newspaper editor who fuels racial hysteria, their families bound by the editor’s wife’s refusal to acknowledge her mixed-race half sister. A society matron’s murder, the framing of a Black servant, and the corruption of a young aristocrat help ignite a violent white supremacist coup. Amid the chaos, a courageous Black man confronts one of the chief instigators, the physician’s own child dies for want of timely care, and he nevertheless returns to save the editor’s ailing infant. The narrative exposes the collision of private conscience and public power, and the cruel persistence of racial hierarchy.
- Published
- 1901
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 300-360
- Original Language
- English
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