2. • Cleveland, Ohio: June 20, 1858 to November 15, 1932.
• 1884 became legal stenographer
• Court-reporting business & short stories
• Legacy begins(1887 Goop, 1899 conjure, etc)
3. • Novels not printed until half a century after death
• “Charles Chesnutt was the most influential and widely
respected African American fiction writer in the United
States”.
• “Historians of African American writing today recognize
Charles Chesnutt for almost singlehandedly
inaugurating a truly African American literary tradition
in the short story”.
4. • The move and plantation
• Uncle Julius, magic, death
• Henrys “condition”, sale and by-back
• Vanished vineyard & Henry
5. • Charity, Dick, & their “love”
• Not Tom, but Grandison to the North
• Kidnapping, marriage
• steamboat
6. • Blue Veins Society & Mr. Ryder
• Ryder to propose to molly, Liza in search of Sam
• Refusing to give up
• Liza and Ryder
