Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932.

Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line / Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited and with an introduction by William L. Andrews. - New York : Penguin, 2000. - xxi, 278 p. ; 20 cm. - Penguin twentieth-century classics Penguin classics . - Penguin classics. Penguin twentieth-century classics. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx).

The goophered grapevine -- Po' Sandy -- Mars Jeem's nightmare -- The conjurer's revenge -- Sis' Becky's pickanniny -- The gray wolf's ha'nt -- Hog-foot Hannibal -- Dave's neckliss -- The wife of his youth -- Her Virginia mammy -- The sheriff's children -- A matter of principle -- Cicely's dream -- The passing of grandison -- Uncle Wellington's wives -- The bouquet -- The web of circumstance -- Baxter's procrustes.

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Multiracial people--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.


Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

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