# Marrow of Tradition

An audiobook by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, read by LibriVox volunteers (9 h 52 min, English).

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/6578)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/11228/read)