Papers should be 5-6 pages long—and you should offer plenty of evidence from the
relevant texts to support your claims. You should not use secondary materials apart from
those we read in class.
Essay Question: How does the ending of The Marrow of Tradition speak to the difficulties that
Chesnutt negotiated when he sought to dramatize the social and political perils of
white supremacy to a mostly white northern audience?
Book: The Marrow of Tradition