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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.

All Works

106 items

A Midnight Adventure

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

Appreciation

  • Date: April 20, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Puck

The Goophered Grapevine

  • Date: August 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Atlantic Monthly

A Secret Ally

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

A Roman Antique

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

The Origin of the Hatchet Story

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

A Fatal Restriction

  • Date: May 1, 1889
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Puck

The Conjurer's Revenge

  • Date: June 1889
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Overland Monthly

Dave's Neckliss

  • Date: October, 1889
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Atlantic Monthly

How a Good Man Went Wrong

  • Date: November 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Puck

She Reminded Him

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

A Deep Sleeper

  • Date: March 11, 1893
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Two Tales

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

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

Tobe's Tribulations

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

The Wife of His Youth

  • Date: July 1898
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Atlantic Monthly

Hot-Foot Hannibal

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

Mr. Taylor's Funeral

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

The Doll

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

The Prophet Peter

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

The Marked Tree

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

Lonesome Ben

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

The March of Progress

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

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 Tight Boot

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

The Colonel's Dream

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

The Marrow of Tradition

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

Peonage, or the New Slavery

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

Advocates New Social House

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

Frederick Douglass: Preface and Chronology

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

Race Prejudice; Its Causes and Its Cure

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

The Disfranchisement of the Negro

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

A Visit to Tuskegee

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

Obliterating the Color Line

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

Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South

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

The Free Colored People of North Carolina

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

The Negro's Franchise

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

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

A Plea for the American Negro

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

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 Defamer of His Race

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

Why is a Book Popular?

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

A Multitude of Counselors

  • Date: April 2, 1891
  • 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

Resolutions Concerning Recent Southern Outrages

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

Lincoln's Courtships

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

To the Grand Army of the Republic

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