The Colonel's Dream by Charles W. Chesnutt

"The Colonel's Dream" by Charles W. Chesnutt is a novel published in 1905. After selling his business, Colonel Henry French returns to his North Carolina hometown with his son, hoping for a brief nostalgic visit. Instead, he confronts the harsh reality of post-Civil War racial oppression and economic injustice. Determined to transform his segregated Southern town into an equal society, the Colonel challenges powerful local interests and deeply entrenched white supremacy. His ambitious dreams for social reform meet fierce resistance, personal tragedy, and violent opposition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932
LoC No. 05023036
Title The Colonel's Dream
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colonel%27s_Dream
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Credits E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject City and town life -- Fiction
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Rich people -- Fiction
Subject Race relations -- Fiction
Subject North Carolina -- Fiction
Subject Racism -- Fiction
Subject Failure (Psychology) -- Fiction
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 19746
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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