For the 19 fifties, for black people to still own their own land and to own their farm means that there was a kind of self sufficiency that gets a race. In about 60 to 67, she goes to live with her mother in milwaukee. This period pretty much is characterized by her as the time when she was sexually abused. And i think it would be worth looking at how it tracts with how we talk about abuse it each different time period.
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