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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

The March of Progress

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

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

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

A Visit to Tuskegee

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

Why is a Book Popular?

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

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

Lincoln's Courtships

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

Advocates New Social House

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

Women's Rights

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

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

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 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 Ballad of Fair Oscar

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

A Defamer of His Race

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

To the Grand Army of the Republic

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

On the Future of His People

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

A Fool's Paradise

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

How Dasdy Came Through

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

The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt

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

A Grass Widow

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

A Virginia Chicken

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

Tom's Warm Welcome

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

Sis' Becky's Pickaninny

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

The Passing of Grandison

  • 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

Uncle Wellington's Wives

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

Things to Be Thankful For

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

Advice to Young Men

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

Wine and Water

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

Methods of Teaching

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

Mars Jeems's Nightmare

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

Stranger Taken In

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

Race Ideals and Examples

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

Her Virginia Mammy

  • 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

The Mission of the Drama

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

The Future American: What the Race is Likely to Become in The Process of Time

  • Date: August 18, 1900
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Boston Evening Transcript

The Future American: A Complete Race-Almagamation Likely to Occur

  • Date: September 1, 1900
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Boston Evening Transcript

The Negro in Art

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

The Future American: A Stream of Dark Blood in the Veins of the Southern Whites

  • Date: August 25, 1900
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: Boston Evening Transcript

For Roosevelt

  • Date: October 22, 1904
  • Creator(s): Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format: periodical
  • Source: The Cleveland Gazette
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