# The Conjure Woman

by [Charles W. Chesnutt](https://localbooks.app/authors/charles-w-chesnutt)

- Genres: [कहानी संग्रह](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/short-stories)
- Set in: [Fayetteville, उत्तरी केरोलिना, संयुक्त राज्य](https://localbooks.app/places/us/north-carolina/fayetteville)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1899

## Description

A Northern couple buys a run-down vineyard in North Carolina after the Civil War, and Uncle Julius, who was once enslaved there, tells them the plantation's old stories of conjure: a man turned into a tree, grapevines that live and die with the man who eats their fruit. Behind the folk tales is a sharp picture of slavery and of the people who profited from it. Chesnutt's first book, with two related stories added at the end.

## Where to buy

- [Project Gutenberg (ebook)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11666)

Read a free sample: https://localbooks.app/books/the-conjure-woman/read/1 (11 chapters, 55229 words)

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