Marrow of Tradition: Charles W. Chestnutt Book

	About the Series
	About This Volume
	About the Text
	List of Illustrations
Pt. 1	The Marrow of Tradition: The Complete Text	1
	Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background	3
	Chronology of Chesnutt's Life and Times	27
	The Marrow of Tradition [1901 Houghton Mifflin Edition]	41
Pt. 2	The Marrow of Tradition: Cultural Contexts	247
1	Caste, Race, and Gender after Reconstruction	249
	from The Plantation Negro as a Freeman	255
	from The Negro Question in the South	262
	from An Imperative Duty	269
	The Atlanta Exposition Address	274
	from The Future American	278
	from The Conservation of Races	288
	from Birth Reform, from the Positive, Not the Negative, Side	299
	from Women and Economics	304
	from The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women	313
	from Service by the Educated Negro	322
2	Law and Lawlessness	331
	Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution	338
	from The Freedman's Case in Equity	340
	from Plessy v. Ferguson	353
	Suffrage and Eligibility to Office, Article VI, the North Carolina State Constitution	362
	from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases	364
	Turn-of-the-Century Newspaper Reports on Lynching	377
	Lynched Negro and Wife First Multilated	378
	Victim's Family Begs to See Negro Burned	381
	Negro Tortured by Illinois Mob	382
	from Respect for Law	383
	from A Race Riot, and After	385
	from Speech before the U.S. House of Representatives	394
3	The Wilmington Riot	398
	Editorial	405
	Letter to the Atlanta Constitution	409
	from White Man's Declaration of Independence	411
	Letter to William McKinley	414
	from An Account of the Race Riot in Wilmington, N.C.	417
4	Segregation as Culture: Etiquette, Spectacle, and Fiction	422
	Is a Race Clash Unavoidable?	429
	from The Cotton States and International Exposition Program	432
	from 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business	435
	from The Hampton Album	441
	Literary Memoranda	443
	Po' Sandy	444
	from A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction	454
	Selected Bibliography	458