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Charles Chesnutt’s Fictions of Ownership
2002
Overview
In the legal brief he filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Homer Plessy inPlessy v. Ferguson, Albion Tourgée—the former North Carolina judge and author of numerous novels of Reconstruction—asserted that Plessy’s reputation as a white man constituted a form of property, and that this property had been forcibly taken from him when he was ejected from a white railroad car. Although succinct and dismissive, the Court’s response to Tourgée’s argument nonetheless spoke volumes. Ostensibly refusing to rule on whether a white appearance was a form of property, Justice Henry Billings Brown unwittingly articulated the
