Frazier, Leroy Kwame

The author was born in a shotgun house on the George Dixon plantation in Senatobia, Mississippi. He is the third of eight children born to sharecroppers with limited education and great wisdom. He was trained to perform farm work at the age of five. The activities included: plowing the farmland; chopping cotton; picking cotton; picking and shelling peas; grazing the mules; gathering the cows; milking the cows; feeding the hogs; and maintaining the gardens. The author's first year of schooling was in an old one-room building with one teacher. The one teacher taught eight different grades in the...