He did so about a year ago, and since then he’d mentioned it on a few separate occasions, telling me how much he’d loved it. My father was the first one in my family to read A Different Drummer. Every one of whom – whether male or female, young or old, liberal or conservative, bigoted or sympathetic – is grappling with, and attempting to explain, this spontaneous rejection of subordination. The reaction to this mass exodus comes from the white townsfolk who remain. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leave with him. One hot afternoon, in a backwater town in the American South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the state.
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