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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

Resolutions Concerning Recent Southern Outrages

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

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

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

The Wife of His Youth

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

The Bouquet

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

The March of Progress

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

The Doll

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

Tobe's Tribulations

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

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

The Marrow of Tradition

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

A Cause Célèbre

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

A Busy Day in a Lawyer's Office

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

The Colonel's Dream

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

Aunt Lucy's Search

  • Date: April 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Family Fiction

Concerning Father

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

Cicely's Dream

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

Baxter's Procrustes

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

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

The Disfranchisement of the Negro

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

Peonage, or the New Slavery

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

Race Prejudice; Its Causes and Its Cure

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

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

The Fall of Adam

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

A Plea for the American Negro

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

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

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

Cartwright's Mistake

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

The Ballad of Fair Oscar

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

To the Grand Army of the Republic

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

Women's Rights

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

On the Future of His People

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

Lincoln's Courtships

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

A Tight Boot

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

A Defamer of His Race

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

Stranger Taken In

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

Uncle Wellington's Wives

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

Sis' Becky's Pickaninny

  • 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

The Web of Circumstance

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

Methods of Teaching

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

A Virginia Chicken

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

A Fool's Paradise

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

A Doubtful Success

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

A Grass Widow

  • Date: May 14, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Family Fiction

Mars Jeems's Nightmare

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

Her Virginia Mammy

  • 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

How Dasdy Came Through

  • Date: February 12, 1887
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Family Fiction
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