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Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the town's black newspaper has questioned the justification for lynchings.

The Marrow of Tradition is a novel written by African American author Charles Chesnutt, first published in 1901. The book tells the story of a fictional town called Wellington, which is based on the real-life town of Wilmington, North Carolina, during the late 19th century. The novel explores themes of racial discrimination, segregation, and violence in the aftermath of the Reconstruction era. The story is told through the perspectives of various characters, including white supremacists, African Americans, and Northern sympathizers. Chesnutt's writing style is celebrated for its realism, ...

Drawing on the 1898 overthrow of the Wilmington, North Carolina, government by white supremacists, Charles W. Chesnutt’s classic novel unmasked the racism of the post-Reconstruction South.