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Written in 1905, The Colonel's Dream is a compelling, bitter tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a regions awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convect-labor exploitation, and endemic violent... Read Full Overview

Written in 1905, The Colonel's Dream is a compelling, bitter tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a region awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convict-labor exploitation, and endemic violent... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: The Colonel s Dream by Charles W. Chesnutt

Reproduction of the original: The Colonel s Dream by Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles W. Chesnutt's classic tale of segregation, racial violence, and oppression in the American South following the Civil War. Colonel Henry French, a former Confederate office, moved to New York City after the war were he became a prosperous business man. Having returned... Read Full Overview

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans' social and cultural identities... Read Full Overview

"The Colonel's Dream" from Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Mixed race author, essayist, political activist and lawyer (1858-1932).

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview