“We are all puppets in the hands of fate, and seldom see the strings.”

About Charles W. Chesnutt

Author • American

Charles W. Chesnutt was a pioneering African-American author, essayist, and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War...

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