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Summary: Chapter I. As the novella opens, Mr. Jones, the proprietor and overseer of the Manor Farm, has just stumbled drunkenly to bed after forgetting to secure his farm buildings properly. As soon as his bedroom light goes out, all of the farm animals except Moses, Mr. Jones’s tame raven, convene in the big barn to hear a speech by Old ...
To Kya ’s dismay, Ma doesn’t return. Pa, for his part, barely notices, though he grumbles about wanting dinner when he sees that she isn’t home that evening. When none of the children tell him where she’s gone, he drunkenly stumbles away. Kya knows that her parents often get into fights and that Pa gets violent.
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The book keeps a keen eye on the effects of gender as well as race—it means something different to be a black man than it does to be a black woman. Black men in this book record a history of violence on their bodies: they endure hard labor, assault, and the threat of lynching. Black women are victimized (as we will see) in other ways.
