The Marrow of Tradition

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Overview

Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the town's black newspaper has questioned the justification for lynchings. As racial tension mounts, Carteret struggles on the domestic front. His wife and child are unwell and his niece, Clara, is courted by Tom Delamer, a lush aristocrat. Meanwhile, William Miller, a young black doctor, returns to hometown of Wellington to set up a practice. Everything comes to a head, however, when a white woman is murdered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974994212
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	12/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	529
Sales rank:	859,099
File size:	754 KB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

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