Historical Fiction

Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

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  • 1899 first published
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Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is an 1899 historical fiction novel by Charles Waddell Chesnutt.

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

Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of mixed-race ancestry which sets them apart for a specific yet degrading kind of treatment from blacks and whites. These stories examine particularly how life in the South was informed through a legacy of slavery and Reconstruction—how members of the “old dominion” desperately struggled to breathe life into the corpse of an antebellum caste system that no longer defined the path and direction in which this country was headed. (Introduction by James K. White).
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Who wrote Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line?

Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line was written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and first published in 1899.

What genre is Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line?

It is usually shelved as Historical Fiction.

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What books are similar to Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line?

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