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“Marrow of Tradition is a 1901 novel about the 1898 Wilmington Coup, in North Carolina, in which white supremacists led a murderous assault on the city’s Black newspaper and Black neighborhoods, and violently overthrew a Republican-led government that included many Black Americans in positions of power. The precise number of casualties isn’t known, but at least dozens—perhaps hundreds—were killed.” Read more...
The Best 19th-Century American Novels
Nathan Wolff, Literary Scholar
