Charles W Chesnutt 
Wife of His Youth & Other Stories of the Color Line 
"It is true that the Blue Veins had their notions"

Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born on 20th June 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio, to parents who were both ‘free persons of color’. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder, and Chesnutt although he identified as African-American noted that he was seven-eig