Charles W Chesnutt

The Colonel's Dream Charles W Chesnutt

Charles W. Chesnutt's classic tale of segregation, racial violence, and oppression in the American South following the Civil War. Colonel Henry French, a former Confederate office, moved to New York City after the war were he became a prosperous business man. Having returned to his hometown of Clarendon, North Carolina, French struggles to improve the segregated and racially unjust society.