Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
What does the poem at the opening of chapter 11 mean?
Chapter 11, page 242.
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The song is a spiritual previously sung by slaves and its presence in this chapter speaks to the continued attempts at the whites to dominate blacks seventy years after the Civil War. But the end of the song is most significant, because it portrays blacks' refusal to be dominated.
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