A grape grower from Ohio buys a run-down plantation in North Carolina, and Uncle Julius, a freedman who knew the place in slavery days, tells him its stories: a bewitched vineyard, a man turned into a tree, a cruel master transformed by a conjurer’s spell. Each tale has a sly purpose of its own. This edition adds further stories and Chesnutt’s essay on Southern folklore.
The first book by a pioneering African American writer, whose dialect tales turn plantation fiction against itself. Download the free EPUB.