This author wrote a short story in which Miss Libbie marries the title character, who treats the slaves on his plantation better after witnessing Nick Johnson's abuse of others.
This author wrote a short story in which Miss Libbie marries the title character, who treats the slaves on his plantation better after witnessing Nick Johnson's abuse of others. In another story in that collection, Henry is initially unaffected by a curse that Aunt Peggy places on those who eat Mars Dugal's grapes. That story by this author is narrated to a couple moving south by a local (*) trickster. In the most famous novel by this author of "Mars Jeem's Nightmare" and a series of stories narrated by Uncle Julius, Dr. Miller operates on the son of the white supremacist Carteret family, while his own son is killed in a fictionalized account of the Wilmington race riots. For 10 points, name this African-American author of the collection The Conjure Woman and The Marrow of Tradition.
This author wrote a short story in which Miss Libbie marries the title character, who treats the slaves on his plantation better after witnessing Nick Johnson's abuse of others.
Charles Waddell {Chesnutt}