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Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer

   

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An African-American family in front of their log cabin in North Carolina. The first third of the novel is devoted to the African-American experience in the Southern farmland.

An African-American family in front of their log cabin in North...

 Women skim boiling sugar-cane juice in preparation for making sorghum syrup. A pivotal scene in the novel takes place around a kettle for boiling sugar cane.

Women skim boiling sugar-cane juice in preparation for making sorghum...