{"id":192,"date":"2018-01-16T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=192"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","slug":"quarry-chapter-viii","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/chapter\/quarry-chapter-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter VIII"},"content":{"raw":"<pre>\u201cOnly once could he recall in later years was his race mentioned.\u00a0 His neighborhood friend, little Jimmie Jones said to him one day; \u201cMy mamma says you\u2019re a mulatto, Donald, but that you\u2019re a nice little boy, and I can invite you to my party.\u201d He repeated the remark to his mother. Mamma, he asked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mulatto\"><strong>what is amulatto<\/strong><\/a>?\u201d\r\n\r\nSeveral other colored physicians had opened offices in Cleveland, and Dr. Glover\u2019s practice began to fall off. When a former classmate of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howard.edu\/explore\/history.htm\"><strong>Howard University<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> where he received his medical education, a dentist practicing in a small Southern city, wrote him that there was a good opening there for a colored physician, and offered to share offices and office expenses with him, he closed his office in Cleveland and with his family moved to <strong>Booneville, Kennessee<\/strong>\u201d <strong>(p. 53)<\/strong>.<\/pre>\r\n<div class=\"textbox\">There is a Booneville, Kentucky and a Booneville, Tennessee.<\/div>\r\n<pre>\u201cDonald was sent to Sunday school at the Mt. Horeb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-church.com\/about-us\/history.php\"><strong>African Methodist Episcopal Church<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> of which the pastor was a very black and very eloquent Negro\u201d <strong>(p. 54)<\/strong>.<\/pre>","rendered":"<pre>\u201cOnly once could he recall in later years was his race mentioned.\u00a0 His neighborhood friend, little Jimmie Jones said to him one day; \u201cMy mamma says you\u2019re a mulatto, Donald, but that you\u2019re a nice little boy, and I can invite you to my party.\u201d He repeated the remark to his mother. Mamma, he asked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mulatto\"><strong>what is amulatto<\/strong><\/a>?\u201d\r\n\r\nSeveral other colored physicians had opened offices in Cleveland, and Dr. Glover\u2019s practice began to fall off. When a former classmate of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howard.edu\/explore\/history.htm\"><strong>Howard University<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> where he received his medical education, a dentist practicing in a small Southern city, wrote him that there was a good opening there for a colored physician, and offered to share offices and office expenses with him, he closed his office in Cleveland and with his family moved to <strong>Booneville, Kennessee<\/strong>\u201d <strong>(p. 53)<\/strong>.<\/pre>\n<div class=\"textbox\">There is a Booneville, Kentucky and a Booneville, Tennessee.<\/div>\n<pre>\u201cDonald was sent to Sunday school at the Mt. 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