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The House Behind the Cedars
Written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of that time, Chesnutt lent a compassionate voice to a group that America did not want to hear. More broadly, however, Chesnutt illustrated, in this character play, the vast and perhaps insurmountable debt this country continues to pay for the sins of slavery. (Summary by James K. White)
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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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