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Charles Waddell Chesnutt Essay Preview: Charles Waddell Chesnutt Report this essay Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born to free blacks Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and Anne Maria Sampson, in Cleveland, Ohio, on 20 June 1858. Chesnutts parents had recently emigrated from Fayetteville, N.C. After the Civil War, when he was eight years old, Chesnutts parents returned to.