# The Marrow of Tradition

By Charles W. Chesnutt.

"The Marrow of Tradition" by Charles W. Chesnutt is a novel published in 1901. Set in the fictional town of Wellington, it portrays the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection, when white supremacists violently overthrew a legitimately elected government. The story follows interweaving plots across racial lines: a newspaper owner conspiring to seize political control, a Black physician facing Jim Crow segregation, half-sisters divided by race, and a son seeking revenge for his father's murder. All converge in election-day violence that forces each character toward a reckoning. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Historical fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Racially mixed people -- Fiction; Riots -- Fiction; Wilmington (N.C.) -- Fiction

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- [Marrow of Tradition](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/6578) by Charles Waddell Chesnutt (9 h 52 min, English)

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