In one story in this collection, Silas awaits a mob after killing a traveling salesman. In another, Reverend Taylor refuses to tell his congregation to avoid a protest march led by Communists. Besides "Long Black Song" and "Fire and Cloud," this coll
In one story in this collection, Silas awaits a mob after killing a traveling salesman. In another, Reverend Taylor refuses to tell his congregation to avoid a protest march led by Communists. Besides "Long Black Song" and "Fire and Cloud," this collection begins with a story about a character who escapes to Chicago after Southern whites kill Bobo, and its second edition added an introduction about "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow." Complaining that "even banker's daughters could feel good about" reading this collection, its author focused his next book on a more unsympathetic character, Bigger Thomas. Opening with "Big Boy Leaves Home," FTP, name this short story collection published in 1940 by Richard Wright, whose title refers to the offspring of a 19th century character.
In one story in this collection, Silas awaits a mob after killing a traveling salesman.
{Uncle Tom’s Children}