How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Every blow they struck was violent payback for a lynching, a hanging, a beating, a murder. I heard the thud of club against flesh, the crack of rock striking bone. Terrible cries erupted as the colored men overwhelmed the Raiders, avenging the lynchings of their brothers, the oppression and torture and murder of fathers and friends. (132.22)
As the Black people respond to yet another White Raider attack, Ben thinks about what they are doing. He pictures their fight as a form of justice—finally people in the Quarter get a chance for a little payback for what they've suffered over the years.