The Marrow of Tradition and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - The Best Black Authors Of All Time Charles Chesnutt Harriet Jacobs Ode Sade "As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust." ¿ Charles W. Chesnutt "Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell"; and I believe it is so." - Harriet Ann Jacobs The Marrow of Tradition pp. 4 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl pp. 329