Civil Rights · Post-Reconstruction Fiction
The Conjure Woman
Seven tales told by Uncle Julius, a formerly enslaved man on a North Carolina plantation, to the Northern couple who have bought it. The conjure stories he tells are folklore on the surface and argument underneath: each one leaves his new employers a little less certain of what they have purchased and what was done on the land before they arrived. Chesnutt was the first Black author published by the Atlantic Monthly, and the first to reach a mainstream white readership without writing to its expectations.
- Period
- 1899
- Region
- United States
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Public domain — published 1899, before 1930, so the work is free of copyright in the United States. The scan is the Internet Archive's, released without additional restriction.
- Source
- https://archive.org/details/conjurewoman00ches_3
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