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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The Web of Circumstance

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

Wine and Water

  • Date:
    • April 23, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Family Fiction

Things to Be Thankful For

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

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

Lonesome Ben

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

The Prophet Peter

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

The March of Progress

  • Date:
    • January 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Century

A Multitude of Counselors

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

The Marked Tree

  • Date:
    • December 1924; January 1925
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Crisis

The Doll

  • Date:
    • April 1912
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Crisis

Mr. Taylor's Funeral

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

The Disfranchisement of the Negro

  • Date:
    • 1903
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • New York: J. Pott & Company

The Free Colored People of North Carolina

  • Date:
    • March 1902
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Southern Workman

Peonage, or the New Slavery

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

Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South

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

Hot-Foot Hannibal

  • Date:
    • January 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Atlantic Monthly

The Sway-Backed House

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

The Bouquet

  • Date:
    • November 1899
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Atlantic Monthly

Why is a Book Popular?

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

A Visit to Tuskegee

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

Resolutions Concerning Recent Southern Outrages

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

The Negro's Franchise

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

The White and the Black

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

Tobe's Tribulations

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

The Partners

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

Aunt Mimy's Son

  • Date:
    • March 1, 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Youth's Companion

What is a White Man?

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

Obliterating the Color Line

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

A Tight Boot

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

Baxter's Procrustes

  • Date:
    • June 1904
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Atlantic Monthly

The Marrow of Tradition

  • Date:
    • 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co.

The Colonel's Dream

  • Date:
    • 1905
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company

A Woman and a Burglar

  • Date:
    • January 12, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The McHenry (IL) Plaindealer

Cicely's Dream

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

Cartwright's Mistake

  • Date:
    • September 19, 1888
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express

Women's Rights

  • Date:
    • August 1915
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Crisis

Race Prejudice; Its Causes and Its Cure

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

Frederick Douglass: Preface and Chronology

  • Date:
    • July 1906
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • AME Church Review

Advocates New Social House

  • Date:
    • December 2, 1905
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Cleveland Journal

Lincoln's Courtships

  • Date:
    • February 4, 1909
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Southwestern Christian Advocate

Concerning Father

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

A Doubtful Success

  • Date:
    • February 17, 1888
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • The Daily Inter Ocean

A Busy Day in a Lawyer's Office

  • Date:
    • January 15, 1887
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Tid-Bits

The Fall of Adam

  • Date:
    • December 25, 1886
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Family Fiction

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

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

A Cause Célèbre

  • Date:
    • January 14, 1891
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Puck

Charles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story The Marrow of Tradition

  • Date:
    • October 20, 1901
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Cleveland World

To the Grand Army of the Republic

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

A Plea for the American Negro

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

The Ballad of Fair Oscar

  • Date:
    • December 18, 1886
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • periodical
  • Source:
    • Tid-Bits

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