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Conjure Woman, The

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt

...s, presents a remarkably different view of Southern life. His accounts include Aun' Peggy's conjure spells in Mars Jeems's Nightmare, Po' Sandy, Sis' Becky's Pickaninny, and Hot Foot Hannibal as well as those of free black conjure men in The Conjurer's Revenge and The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt. These conjure tales reveal moments of active black resistance to white oppression in ad...

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