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Essay Archive - Black and White
Black and White
Following the Civil War, just prior to the turn of the century, many
American novelist were writing more freely of the previous slave culture. Two
of these writers being Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt. Mark Twain was a
popular “white” author by this time. Charles Chesnutt, the son of free blacks,
decided to pursue a dream of becoming an author in order to remove the spirit of
racism. By studying these authors in particular, the views of a white raised in
the slave holding south are juxtaposed with the views of free black. Both Twain
and Chesnutt satirize whites in different ways throu....
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