{"id":189,"date":"2018-01-16T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/?post_type=chapter&p=189"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","slug":"quarry-chapter-vi","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/chapter\/quarry-chapter-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter VI"},"content":{"raw":"
\u201cA man destined to play an important part in shaping the destiny of young Donald Seaton was Senator James L. Brown<\/strong>, the leading colored citizen of Cleveland\u2026.\r\n\r\nAn honest politician in an era of graft, when men of his race were subject to even greater temptation than politicians of a lighter hue, Brown had served first as a justice of the peace, then as state representative for several terms, and now was a member of the State Senate\u201d (p. 33)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
This character is based on Chesnutt\u2019s older cousin, John Patterson Green<\/a>, born in 1845 in New Bern, North Carolina.<\/div>\r\n
Learn more about John Patterson Green, the first African American U.S. Postage Stamp Agent, by reading his autobiography, Fact Stranger Than Fiction. Seventy-Five Years of a Busy Life with Reminiscences of Many Great and Good Men and Women<\/a><\/em><\/div>\r\n
\u201cOf the rows of bookshelves, on one side of the room, several were filled with books by colored writers. Their number was surprising- it was long before the day of the New Negro-though in most cases their literary value was negligible.\u00a0 With the exception of the three great Alexanders- two Dumas<\/strong><\/a> and one Pushkin<\/strong><\/a> \u2026. There were thrilling stories of escapes from slavery.\u00a0 The life of Frederick Douglass<\/strong><\/a> held a prominent place, <\/strong>George W. Williams<\/a>\u2019 History of the Negro<\/em><\/strong><\/a> another.\u2026 Along with these were novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> Judge Albion W. Tourgee<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> the speeches of Wendell Phillips<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> the poems of Whittier<\/strong><\/a> and many another New England combination to anti-slavery literature. Fanny Kemble<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s<\/strong> Journal of Life on a South Carolina Plantation<\/em> was an item Brown valued highly because of its dispassionate and therefore all the more convincing description of commercialized slavery.\u201d (p. 35)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
To read Fanny Kemble\u2019s most famous written work, just click on Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation<\/em><\/a>. Read Kemble\u2019s daily journal of the trip \u201cJourney from Philadelphia to Butler Island, Georgia<\/em><\/a>\u201d.<\/div>\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cYes they adopted him because they thought he was white, and now they know he isn\u2019t they want to throw him out. I don\u2019t care a damn about them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the baby I\u2019m interested in. They are white people and can take care of themselves. He is a \u201cnigger,\u201d and God will have to look after him.\u00a0 I hope He\u2019ll make a better job of it than He has been doing for the race up to date.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be profane, Jim,\u201d reproved Mrs. Brown, or sacrilegious. As old Sojourner Truth<\/a> said to Frederick Douglass in his darkest hour, \u201cGod still lives.\u201d\u00a0 (p. 42)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
Read Sojourner Truth\u2019s famous speech, \u201cAin\u2019t I a Woman<\/a>?\u201d delivered at the 1854 Women\u2019s Convention in Akron, Ohio.<\/div>\r\n
\u201c<\/strong>God\u2019s in heaven, All\u2019s right with the world!\u201d\u00a0 quoted Miss Brown, who knew her Browning<\/strong><\/a> and loved him all the better because she had read, in an English biography of the famous poet, that some of his friends maintained that because of his dark complexion and curly hair and the warmth and sensuousness of his poetry, and his West Indian birth and breeding the probability was that he had some Negro blood\u2026It would require a great deal of proof, Miss Brown was certain, to make Americans admit that the great Victorian could be colored. She recalled an article in a critical review in which the writer, a Southern woman and the leading literary light of Jackson, Mississippi, had mentioned that the famous French author Alexander Dumas could not possibly have been colored, for simple reason that no Negro could have written Monte Cristo, or The Three Musketeers.\u00a0 It was too good to be true about Browning- but the thought was comforting.\u201d\u00a0 (p. 42)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
Interested in learning more about Robert and Elizabeth Browning\u2019s heritage? Read an excerpt from Dared and Done<\/a> by Julia Markus.<\/div>\r\n
\u201cSenator Brown inquired of Mrs. Glover whether she cared to know the facts about the child\u2019s origin.\u00a0 She said no, that the doctrine of heredity did not appeal to her, that she believed in the controlling influence of environment.\u00a0 Colored people, she said, in view of their history, were not in a position to be squeamish about blood and birth\u201d (p. 45)<\/strong>.<\/pre>\r\n
Chesnutt was interested in the study of sociology<\/a> and raises the question of Nature vs. Nurture. If you\u2019re interested in learning more about it go to, Nature vs. Nurture<\/a>.<\/div>\r\n\u201cFinally she put on her hat and coat, excused herself to her sister, took a street car<\/strong><\/a> downtown, through the heart of the city, across the long river bridge, through the business section of the West Side, which, like that of the East Side, abutted upon the river, to Ethel Avenue, in the residential suburb where the Seatons had their home\u201d (p. 47)<\/strong>.\r\n
The heart of the city refers to Cleveland's Public Square<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>","rendered":"
\u201cA man destined to play an important part in shaping the destiny of young Donald Seaton was Senator James L. Brown<\/strong>, the leading colored citizen of Cleveland\u2026.\r\n\r\nAn honest politician in an era of graft, when men of his race were subject to even greater temptation than politicians of a lighter hue, Brown had served first as a justice of the peace, then as state representative for several terms, and now was a member of the State Senate\u201d (p. 33)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
This character is based on Chesnutt\u2019s older cousin, John Patterson Green<\/a>, born in 1845 in New Bern, North Carolina.<\/div>\n
Learn more about John Patterson Green, the first African American U.S. Postage Stamp Agent, by reading his autobiography, Fact Stranger Than Fiction. Seventy-Five Years of a Busy Life with Reminiscences of Many Great and Good Men and Women<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
\u201cOf the rows of bookshelves, on one side of the room, several were filled with books by colored writers. Their number was surprising- it was long before the day of the New Negro-though in most cases their literary value was negligible.\u00a0 With the exception of the three great Alexanders- two Dumas<\/strong><\/a> and one Pushkin<\/strong><\/a> \u2026. There were thrilling stories of escapes from slavery.\u00a0 The life of Frederick Douglass<\/strong><\/a> held a prominent place, <\/strong>George W. Williams<\/a>\u2019 History of the Negro<\/em><\/strong><\/a> another.\u2026 Along with these were novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> Judge Albion W. Tourgee<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> the speeches of Wendell Phillips<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> the poems of Whittier<\/strong><\/a> and many another New England combination to anti-slavery literature. Fanny Kemble<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s<\/strong> Journal of Life on a South Carolina Plantation<\/em> was an item Brown valued highly because of its dispassionate and therefore all the more convincing description of commercialized slavery.\u201d (p. 35)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
To read Fanny Kemble\u2019s most famous written work, just click on Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation<\/em><\/a>. Read Kemble\u2019s daily journal of the trip \u201cJourney from Philadelphia to Butler Island, Georgia<\/em><\/a>\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cYes they adopted him because they thought he was white, and now they know he isn\u2019t they want to throw him out. I don\u2019t care a damn about them.\u00a0 It\u2019s the baby I\u2019m interested in. They are white people and can take care of themselves. He is a \u201cnigger,\u201d and God will have to look after him.\u00a0 I hope He\u2019ll make a better job of it than He has been doing for the race up to date.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be profane, Jim,\u201d reproved Mrs. Brown, or sacrilegious. As old Sojourner Truth<\/a> said to Frederick Douglass in his darkest hour, \u201cGod still lives.\u201d\u00a0 (p. 42)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Read Sojourner Truth\u2019s famous speech, \u201cAin\u2019t I a Woman<\/a>?\u201d delivered at the 1854 Women\u2019s Convention in Akron, Ohio.<\/div>\n
\u201c<\/strong>God\u2019s in heaven, All\u2019s right with the world!\u201d\u00a0 quoted Miss Brown, who knew her Browning<\/strong><\/a> and loved him all the better because she had read, in an English biography of the famous poet, that some of his friends maintained that because of his dark complexion and curly hair and the warmth and sensuousness of his poetry, and his West Indian birth and breeding the probability was that he had some Negro blood\u2026It would require a great deal of proof, Miss Brown was certain, to make Americans admit that the great Victorian could be colored. She recalled an article in a critical review in which the writer, a Southern woman and the leading literary light of Jackson, Mississippi, had mentioned that the famous French author Alexander Dumas could not possibly have been colored, for simple reason that no Negro could have written Monte Cristo, or The Three Musketeers.\u00a0 It was too good to be true about Browning- but the thought was comforting.\u201d\u00a0 (p. 42)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Interested in learning more about Robert and Elizabeth Browning\u2019s heritage? Read an excerpt from Dared and Done<\/a> by Julia Markus.<\/div>\n
\u201cSenator Brown inquired of Mrs. Glover whether she cared to know the facts about the child\u2019s origin.\u00a0 She said no, that the doctrine of heredity did not appeal to her, that she believed in the controlling influence of environment.\u00a0 Colored people, she said, in view of their history, were not in a position to be squeamish about blood and birth\u201d (p. 45)<\/strong>.<\/pre>\n
Chesnutt was interested in the study of sociology<\/a> and raises the question of Nature vs. Nurture. If you\u2019re interested in learning more about it go to, Nature vs. Nurture<\/a>.<\/div>\n
\u201cFinally she put on her hat and coat, excused herself to her sister, took a street car<\/strong><\/a> downtown, through the heart of the city, across the long river bridge, through the business section of the West Side, which, like that of the East Side, abutted upon the river, to Ethel Avenue, in the residential suburb where the Seatons had their home\u201d (p. 47)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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