Returning Voices
The Marrow of Tradition
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA Southern town’s fragile racial truce collapses into a massacre based closely on an actual historical event Chesnutt had watched happen in his own lifetime. He wrote it while the wounds were still fresh, and it cost him readers who preferred their history gentler. It remains one of the most direct confrontations with that violence written by anyone who lived through its era.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Where to find it
- On the Returning Voices shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #11228. In the public domain in the United States.