Uncle Tom's Children | Social Concerns
Uncle Tom's Children originally contained four lengthy stories: "Big Boy Leaves Home," "Down By the Riverside," "Long Black Song," and "Fire and Cloud." "Bright and Morning Star" was added to the 1940 edition. The book is unified by the stories' shared social context, common themes, and consistent narrative technique. It is made coherent by an arrangement that leads the reader toward increasingly sophisticated examples of self-realization.
The stories are set in the rural South of Wright's childhood, and they graphically portray the systematic racial oppression suffered by...
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