The Marrow of Tradition: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Waddell Chesnutt: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 37 original MP3 tracks, 9:52:06 running time and a link to listen.
The Marrow of Tradition, credited to Charles Waddell Chesnutt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Marrow of Tradition, by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Read by James K. White. In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Marrow of Tradition
- Author credits: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 37
- Listed recording duration: 9:52:06
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- historical fiction
- segregation
- racism
- post-Civil War South
- Post-Civil War Southern literature
- Afro-American fiction
- color line
Opening tracks: first 24 of 37
- 01 - At Break of Day — 19:38
- 02 - The Christening Party — 28:17
- 03 - The Editor At Work — 22:34
- 04 - Theodore Felix — 14:39
- 05 - A Journey Southward — 28:08
- 06 - Janet — 7:53
- 07 - The Operation — 20:10
- 08 - The Campaign Drags — 9:08
- 09 - The White Man's 'Nigger' — 15:55
- 10 - Delamere Plays A Trump — 18:41
- 11 - The Baby And The Bird — 9:18
- 12 - Another Southern Product — 11:18
- 13 - The Cake Walk — 13:37
- 14 - The Maunderings of Old Mrs. Ochiltree — 15:30
- 15 - Mrs. Carteret Seeks An Explanation — 13:30
- 16 - Ellis Takes A Trick — 24:35
- 17 - The Social Aspirations Of Captain McBane — 22:16
- 18 - Sandy Sees His Own Ha'nt — 8:38
- 19 - A Midnight Walk — 6:22
- 20 - A Shocking Crime — 9:48
- 21 - The Necessity of An Example — 11:27
- 22 - How Not To Prevent A Lynching — 15:10
- 23 - Belleview — 10:40
- 24 - Two Southern Gentlemen — 14:21
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