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About the Series | |
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About This Volume | |
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Illustrations | |
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The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text | |
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Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background | |
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Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times | |
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A Note on the Text | |
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The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin edition] | |
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The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts | |
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Caste, Race and Gender After Reconstruction from The Platinum Negro as a Freeman | |
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"The Negro Question in the South" | |
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An Imperative Duty | |
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"Atlanta Exposition Speech" from Up from Slavery | |
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"The Future American" | |
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"The Conservation of Race" | |
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"Birth Reform, from the Positive, not the Negative Side" | |
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Women and Economics | |
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"The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Woman" | |
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"Service by the Educated Negro" | |
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Law and Lawlessness | |
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Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution | |
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"The Freedman's Case in Equity" | |
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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 | |
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"Suffrage and Eligibility to Office," Article VI, amendment to the North Carolina State Constitution | |
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases | |
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"Lynched Negro and Wife First Mutilated," Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post February 8, 1904 | |
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"Victim's Family Begs to See Negro Burned," Atlanta Constitution October 2, 1905 | |
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"Belleville is Complacent Over Horrible Lynching,: New York Herald June 9, 1903 | |
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"Respect for Law," Independent | |
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"A Race Riot and After," Following the Color Line | |
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A speech before the United States House of Representatives, February 23, 1900 | |
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The Wilmington Riot | |
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Editorial printed in Literary Digest, 1898 | |
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Speech reported in The Wilmington Star | |
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From the "White Man's Declaration of Independence" (or, Wilmington Declaration of Independence), from Appleton's Cyclopaedia | |
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Anonymous letter to William McKinley, 13 November 1898 | |
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Letter to Walter Hines Page, 1898 | |
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"An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C." | |
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Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction | |
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Wilmington Messenger article, rpt in Raleigh New and Observer, 8 September 1899 | |
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Photograph of "Old Plantation" Midway booth at the 1896 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia | |
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From The Cotton States and International Exposition program | |
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100 Years of the Negro in Show Business | |
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"Old" and "New" Negro photographs juxtaposed, from Frances Benjamin Johnston's The Hampton album | |
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Literary Memoranda | |
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"Po' Sandy" | |
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From The Leopard's Spots | |
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From "A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction" North American Review | |
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Bibliography | |