The Wife of His Youth

​and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
By 
Charles. W. Chestnutt
​1899

Table of Contents

​The Wife of His Youth

Her Virginia Mammy

The Sheriff's Children

A Matter of Principle

Cicely's Dream

The Passing of Grandison

Uncle Wellington's Wives

The Bouquet

The Web of Circumstance
​Three Essays on the Color Line:

What is a White Man? (1889)

The Future American (1900)

The Disfranchisement of the Negro (1903)
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