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

The Web of Circumstance

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

Cicely's Dream

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

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

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

On the Future of His People

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

A Plea for the American Negro

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

Aunt Mimy's Son

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

Lonesome Ben

  • Date:
    • March 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 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 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

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 Sway-Backed House

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

Tobe's Tribulations

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

The House Behind the Cedars

  • Date:
    • 1900
  • Creator(s):
    • Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell)
  • Format:
    • book
  • Source:
    • Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

The March of Progress

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

The White and the Black

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

A Defamer of His Race

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

The Negro's Franchise

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

Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South

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

The Partners

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

To the Grand Army of the Republic

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

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

Obliterating the Color Line

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

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

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

The Marrow of Tradition

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

The Free Colored People of North Carolina

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

The Disfranchisement of the Negro

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

Baxter's Procrustes

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

Peonage, or the New Slavery

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

For Roosevelt

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

Advocates New Social House

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

The Colonel's Dream

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

Race Prejudice; Its Causes and Its Cure

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

The Prophet Peter

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

Frederick Douglass: Preface and Chronology

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

Lincoln's Courtships

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

The Doll

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

Race Ideals and Examples

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

Mr. Taylor's Funeral

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

Women's Rights

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

The Mission of the Drama

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

Resolutions

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

The Marked Tree

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

The Negro in Art

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

Concerning Father

  • Date:
    • May 1930
  • 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

Post-Bellum—Pre-Harlem

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

A Fool's Paradise

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

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