WHo is able to stop the wallaces from killing T.J. right away, when he is pulled from his house in the middle of the night? How does he stop them?

Mr. Jamison pulls up in his car and says, "Y'all decide to hold court out here tonight?"

Finaly Papa was able to start a fire in the fields as a distraction to prevent TJ from being lynched.

Papa is able to stop them from killing T.J. by starting a fire on his cotton field to distract the Wallace's

Papa sets the cotton field on fire, but first, Mr. Jamison pulls up in his car and says, "Yall decide to hold court out here tonight?"