A review by aimeesue
The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales by Charles W. Chesnutt

4.0

The Conjure Woman is a series of stories set in the post Civil War south, told by a former slave who now works for the Northern (carpetbagging) family that has bought the old plantation where he lives. While they are much like the Uncle Remus stories of B'rer Fox and B'rer Bear, in that they also make use of a native narrator who talks in dialect, the Conjure Woman stories speak much more openly about the horrors of slavery. That this is done in an off- hand, that's -Just-what-happened tone makes it that much more horrible for the modern reader. Highly recommended.