DEVIL MAKE A THIRD
The
legacy of slavery is mentioned only once and that is part of an
elaborate rationalization concerning his rich former father-in-law which
Buck creates to justify his own greed, "I got no guilty feelings. Maybe
I've squeezed a mortgage too close and maybe I've shaved off a little
for myself when I bought for the city. Folks forget anyhow. They've
forgot how old Longshore's folks trafficked in slaves so they could
raise him in a big white house in the middle of ten thousand acres of
sandy loam. Maybe forty-fifty years from now, some Bannon'll be oozin'
religion at the church door and folks won't remember that Buck turned
his eyes off while his hands gathered a crop they didn't make."
from the March 7, 1916 DOTHAN EAGLE
from the April 4, 1911 DOTHAN EAGLE
HELL IN AVEN!
