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    A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's "Sheriff's Children"
    A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's "Sheriff's Children"
    A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's "Sheriff's Children"
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    A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's "Sheriff's Children"

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    A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's "Sheriff's Children," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535833004
    A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's "Sheriff's Children"

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      A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's "Sheriff's Children" - Gale

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      The Sheriff’s Children

      Charles Waddell Chesnutt

      1888

      Introduction

      The Sheriff’s Children was one of Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s first pieces of fiction exploring the insidious effect of racism on America. Collected in The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line eleven years after its initial magazine publication, even at the turn of the century The Sheriff’s Children stood out for its indictment of white society in contributing to the problems faced by African Americans.

      Many of the other stories in the collection dealt with internal African American issues—that is, how African Americans dealt with the problems of race, skin color, and prejudice among themselves. Such stories, including the title story, were generally more well received at the time of the collection’s initial publication, in 1899. Such issues as racial intolerance, racial violence, and particularly racial intermingling did not sit well with the American reading public or its white reviewers. Only a handful of white Americans—though esteemed literary figures—publicly praised Chesnutt’s work. The majority criticized him for bringing such issues as miscegenation to the forefront and implied he would do better to return to the folktales he had previously written to such acclaim.

      Chesnutt did not do so; his later works, novels, treated race issues in an even more blatant manner, and in consequence, sold fewer and fewer copies. Six years after The Wife of His Youth had been published, Chesnutt had officially retired from his writing career. After decades of lingering forgotten in archives, his work was rediscovered. Today, Chesnutt is widely praised as one of the most important African-American writers of his period.

      Author Biography

      Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of free African Americans who had left the South a few years previously. Chesnutt spent his early childhood in the North, but after the Civil War, his family moved back to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where his father ran a grocery store.

      As a boy, Chesnutt enjoyed reading at a private library and browsing in bookstores. Chesnutt dreamed of becoming a professional writer, and his first story was published in a local paper when he was only fourteen. The following

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