Read: Charles Chestnutt, The Wife of His Youth http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text7/chesnutt.pdf
Respond to the following questions:
How did some African Americans create personal and group
identity after emancipation?
How did the challenge to do so differ for those who were
previously enslaved and those who were not?
What “institutions” did they established to help them
transition to “new” lives?
What part(s) of their past did they claim? Did they deny
anything?