Questions:
1. At what point in Scenes1 and 2 does the recurring image of the road appear? What significance does the road have for the former slaves?
2. Who is Martha Pentecost, and why won’t Seth tell Herald that he knows where Martha lives?
3. What is the Binding Song, where does it come from, and what is its significance to Bynum?
4. What are Rutherford Selig’s occupations? What power does he derive from them?
5. What occupations did Rutherford Selig’s father and grandfather have? How are these occupations linked to...
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