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[Review of The Conjure Woman]

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  • Source Text: Anonymous, "[Review of The Conjure Woman]," The Congregationalist 84 (May 18, 1899): 720.

Seven admirable Negro stories by Charles W. Chesnutt compose The Conjure Woman [Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25]. The superstitious belief in witchcraft and magic which used to pervade the colored people at the South so largely comes to light in these stories, which are amusing blendings of the grave and the comical. Not the least of the attractions of the book is the droll way in which the underlying purpose of Uncle Julius in telling his stories is revealed from time to time.

  • Cite (Chicago style): Anonymous, "[Review of The Conjure Woman]," The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive, Gen. Ed. Stephanie P. Browner, Matt Cohen, and Kenneth M. Price, accessed November 21, 2024. https://chesnuttarchive.org/item/ccda.rev00067.
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  • Rights information: The base text of the original item is in the public domain. The text encoding and editorial notes were created and/or prepared by the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Any reuse of the material should credit the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive. [License]
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