A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) found literary success with his “conjure tales” - vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular
A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) found literary success with his “conjure tales” - vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular