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Social Inequity In Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow Of Tradition

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In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles Chesnutt tells the story of social inequity in the Reconstruction period of the late 1800s. He uses a variety of distinct characters, reaching from high-minded white extremists to vindictive blacks. There is an overall theme of racism and how it affected both whites and blacks after the civil war, specifically in the South and the Willimington Massacre. This book being about slavery and the exploitation of black people made this novel interesting. “You are mistaken, sir, in imagining me hostile to the Negro...On the contrary, I am friendly to his best interests. I give him employment; I pay taxes for schools to educate him, and for court-houses and jails to keep him in order. I merely object to being governed
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