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The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
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The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

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Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of mixed-race ancestry which sets them apart for a specific yet degrading kind of treatment from blacks and whites. These stories examine particularly how life in the South was informed through a legacy of slavery and Reconstruction—how members of the “old dominion” desperately struggled to breath life into the corpse of an antebellum caste system that no longer defined the path and direction in which this country was headed. (Introduction by James K. White).
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Release dateAug 25, 2014
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African-American author known for his novels centering on race relations in the American South.

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    Book poorly written. The narrator should not attempt to read an audiobook again