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Tales of Conjure and the Color Line : 10 Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Joan Sherman (Introduction), Joan R. Sherman, Dover Thrift Editions Paperback, 117 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-486-40426-9 / 0486404269 ISBN-13: 978-0-486-40426-4 / 9780486404264 A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) found literary success with his "conjure tales" — vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular — and later with his "stories of the color line," whic |