Uncle Tom's Children

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  • 'Wright's
  • unrelentingly
  • bleak
  • landscape
  • was
  • not
  • merely
  • that
  • of
  • the
  • Deep
  • South,
  • or
  • of
  • Chicago,
  • but
  • that
  • of
  • the
  • world,
  • the
  • human
  • heart'
  • James
  • BaldwinNatural
  • disasters,
  • cold-blooded
  • murders,
  • political
  • agitation
  • -
  • all
  • haunt
  • these
  • dark,
  • dramatic
  • novellas
  • set
  • in
  • an
  • American
  • Deep
  • South
  • still
  • corrupted
  • by
  • its
  • slave-owning
  • past.
  • But
  • at
  • the
  • heart
  • of
  • each
  • are
  • the
  • stories
  • of
  • the
  • men,
  • women
  • and
  • children
  • whose
  • resistance
  • against
  • oppression
  • will
  • come
  • to
  • define
  • their
  • lives.Originally
  • published
  • in
  • 1938,
  • Uncle
  • Tom's
  • Children
  • was
  • Richard
  • Wright's
  • first
  • published
  • work.
  • It
  • would
  • establish
  • his
  • reputation
  • as
  • both
  • a
  • powerful
  • storyteller
  • and
  • a
  • fierce
  • chronicler
  • of
  • racism,
  • violence
  • and
  • oppression
  • in
  • America
  • at
  • the time.
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