![]() ![]() It originally belonged to a white plantation owner, Harlan Granger, who sold it to cover his taxes during Reconstruction. ![]() ![]() Unlike most black families in their area, the Logan family owns the land on which they reside. In 1933, nine-year-old Cassie Logan lives in rural Mississippi with her three brothers, Stacey (twelve years old), Christopher-John (seven years old), and Little Man (six years old). The novel contains several themes, including Jim Crow segregation, Black landownership, sharecropping, the Great Depression, and lynching. In the book, Taylor explores struggles of African Americans in 1930s Mississippi through the perspective of nine-year-old Cassie Logan. The novel is the first book in the Logan family saga, which includes four sequels ( Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1992), The Gold Cadillac (1987), and All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020)) and three prequels ( The Land (2001), The Well: David's Story (1995), and Song of the Trees (1975)) as well as two novellas ( Mississippi Bridge (1990) and The Friendship (1987)). Part of her Logan family series, it is a sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1977 novel by Mildred D. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |