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[Review of The Wife of His Youth]

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  • Source Text: Anonymous, "[Review of The Wife of His Youth]," The Colored American 8 (November 17, 1900): 13.

Charles W. Chestnutt, in a recent publication entitled "The Wife of His Youth," presents an intelligent argument in behalf of the race problem. The logic is so strong that it has attracted the attention of some of the best American writers. Mr. Wm. Dean Howells was so touched by it that he has come forward with the most promising predictions concerning the colored race. He said that during its one generation of freedom its great progress marked by such instances as Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, and Chestnutt, bade fare to develop into a separate and distinct civilization which would equal that of the whites in education, culture, and refinement.

  • Cite (Chicago style): Anonymous, "[Review of The Wife of His Youth]," 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.rev00229.
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