After arriving in Mississippi and setting his sights on the acreage he wants to buy, he soon discovers that becoming a landowner of color is more complicated and dangerous than he expected.
An incident of family betrayal and a broken promise prompts Paul-Edward to run away from home and pursue his dream to farm his own piece of land. Though it is acceptable that his father, plantation-owner Edward, keeps an African-American mistress and helps rear her children, Paul-Edward and his sister, Cassie, are not allowed the same privileges as their half-brothers. Through them, the hero becomes painfully aware of the indelible line dividing black and white society. She lays the groundwork for these issues to be examined through two key relationships in the childhood of Paul-Edward, a boy of mixed race: the strong bond he shares with Robert, his white half-brother, and a tenuous friendship with Mitchell, whose parents were born into slavery and whose father works for Paul-Edward's father. Here, the author deftly explores double standards in the South during the years following the Civil War.
This prequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryįocuses on Cassie's grandfather, Paul-Edward Logan, and explains how the seeds were planted for feuds between the Logans and other families, as well as certain loyalties. Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.Taylor's gift for combining history and storytelling are as evident here as in her other stories about the Logan family.Publisher: Speak Reprint edition (October 14, 2003).Taylor brings truth and power to the newest addition to the award-winning Logan family stories."
Once again inspired by her own history, Ms. So at the age of fourteen, he sets out toward the only dream he has ever had: to find land every bit as good as his father's, and make it his own. Even within his own family he faces betrayal and degradation. White people discriminate against him when they learn of his black heritage. Black people distrust him because he looks white.
But as he grows into a man he learns that life for someone like him is not easy. His white father has acknowledged him and raised him openly-something unusual in post-Civil War Georgia. "The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows.
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