Accession number
PML 199107
Creator
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.
Published
Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2024.
Notes
Morgan copy missing first flyleaf.
Description
3 preliminary leaves, 294 pages, 1 leaf ; 20 cm
Summary
Originally published in 1900, this groundbreaking novel by a distinguished African American author explores the Southern obsession with race. The drama of a brother and sister who "pass for white" during the dangerous days of Reconstruction, it offers realistic, unsentimental perspectives on the role of race in 19th-century American life. -- Publisher's description
Binding
Publisher's green pictorial cloth binding, title stamped in black on front and in gilt on spine.
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