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Shadows escaped through the pine/and the pecan groves and hounds were closing in fast/deep into Georgia, where history happens/to be the baying echoes of brutality,/and terror in the oaks along red country roads,/or the gibbet branches of a silk-cotton tree/from which Afolabes hung like bats. (XXXV.i.178)
The narrator's journey through the Deep South reveals the scars of slavery at every turn. It takes little poetic imagination for the narrator to relive the racial violence and injustice once so rampant in that place.