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Around the turn of the twentieth century and after having achieved financial success in New York, Colonel French returns to his hometown of Clarendon, NC, determined to use his great wealth to bring about racial harmony through economic prosperity, in a south still reeling from the social upheaval of the Civil War. He devises schemes to bring jobs to all members of the community - without regard to 'race' - but underestimates the power of deep-seated racism to undermine his efforts. He fails horribly and loses his most cherished loved ones in the process, perhaps because he himself could not fully dispel his own Southern values.
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But did not choose the design; let us be thankful for that. It might have been like his father's. Bill Fetters rich and great, he mused, "who would have dreamed it? I kicked him once, all the way down Main Street from the schoolhouse to the bank--and dodged his angry mother for a whole month afterward!"
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The Colonel's Dream
The Colonel's Dream,Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Toby Press,1592640621,Classics,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Literature: Classics
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