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The House Behind the Cedars

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Narrator LibriVox Community

Publisher: LibriVox

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Summary

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of that time, Chesnutt lent a compassionate voice to a group that America did not want to hear. More broadly, however, Chesnutt illustrated, in this character play, the vast and perhaps insurmountable debt this country continues to pay for the sins of slavery. (Summary by James K. White)
Duration: about 8 hours (07:29:59)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1900. Copyright Statment: —