High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Passing of Grandison" is a short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt and was published in the short story collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899). The story takes place in the United States in the early 1850s, at the time of anti-slavery sentiment and the abolitionist movement in the northern states, and after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.