Works

Here users can find the writings of Chesnutt across multiple genres: all works of fiction he published in his lifetime, including five books and dozens of short stories; a sampling of more than a dozen of his essays and speeches; a handful of Chesnutt-authored reviews; and two poems. For these works, we try whenever possible to provide both a transcription and digital images of the individual printed pages.

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106 results

Mars Jeems's Nightmare

  • Date:
    • 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

A Matter of Principle

  • Date:
    • 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

McDugald's Mule

  • Date:
    • 1974
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press

Methods of Teaching

  • Date:
    • 1999
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Standford, California: Stanford University Press

A Midnight Adventure

  • Date:
    • December 6, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Chicago Daily Inter Ocean

The Mission of the Drama

  • Date:
    • January 1920
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Cygnet

Mr. Taylor's Funeral

  • Date:
    • April 1915; May 1915
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Crisis

A Multitude of Counselors

  • Date:
    • April 2, 1891
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Independent

The Negro in Art

  • Date:
    • November 1926
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Crisis

The Negro in Cleveland

  • Date:
    • November 1930
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Clevelander

The Negro's Franchise

  • Date:
    • May 11, 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Boston Evening Transcript

Obliterating the Color Line

  • Date:
    • October 23, 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Cleveland World

On the Future of His People

  • Date:
    • January 20, 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Saturday Evening Post

The Origin of the Hatchet Story

  • Date:
    • April 24, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

The Partners

  • Date:
    • May 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Southern Workman

The Passing of Grandison

  • Date:
    • 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Peonage, or the New Slavery

  • Date:
    • September 1904
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Voice of the Negro

A Plea for the American Negro

  • Date:
    • February 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Critic

Po' Sandy

  • Date:
    • May 1888
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Atlantic Monthly

Post-Bellum—Pre-Harlem

  • Date:
    • February 1931
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Colophon

The Prophet Peter

  • Date:
    • April 1906
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Hathaway-Brown Magazine

Pussy Meow: The Autobiography of a Cat, S. L. Patteson

  • Date:
    • November 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Modern Culture

Race Ideals and Examples

  • Date:
    • October 1913
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • A.M.E. Review

Race Prejudice; Its Causes and Its Cure

  • Date:
    • 1905
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Alexander's Magazine

Resolutions

  • Date:
    • November 20, 1920
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Cleveland Gazette

Resolutions Concerning Recent Southern Outrages

  • Date:
    • June 4, 1892
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Cleveland Gazette

A Roman Antique

  • Date:
    • July 17, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

A Secret Ally

  • Date:
    • September 19, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Chicago Daily Inter Ocean

The Shadow of My Past

  • Date:
    • September 24, 1893
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Philadelphia Inquirer

She Reminded Him

  • Date:
    • September 21, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

The Sheriff's Children

  • Date:
    • November 7, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Independent

Sis' Becky's Pickaninny

  • Date:
    • 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

A Soulless Corporation

  • Date:
    • April 16, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Tid-Bits

Stranger Taken In

  • Date:
    • June 1, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • City and Farm Record (Topeka, KS)

Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South

  • Date:
    • May 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Modern Culture

The Sway-Backed House

  • Date:
    • November, 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Outlook

Things to Be Thankful For

  • Date:
    • 1999
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Standford, California: Stanford University Press

A Tight Boot

  • Date:
    • January 28, 1886
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Boston Daily Globe

To the Grand Army of the Republic

  • Date:
    • September 8, 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Cleveland Leader

Tobe's Tribulations

  • Date:
    • November, 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Southern Workman

Tom's Warm Welcome

  • Date:
    • November 27, 1886; 1974
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Family Fiction

Uncle Peter's House

  • Date:
    • December 9, 1885; December 10, 1885
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph

Uncle Wellington's Wives

  • Date:
    • 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darky Loves Chicken

  • Date:
    • July 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Self Culture Magazine

A Virginia Chicken

  • Date:
    • 1974
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press

A Visit to Tuskegee

  • Date:
    • 1999
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

The Web of Circumstance

  • Date:
    • 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

What is a White Man?

  • Date:
    • May 30, 1889
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Independent

The White and the Black

  • Date:
    • March 20, 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Boston Evening Transcript

Why is a Book Popular?

  • Date:
    • September 1, 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Index

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