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Roll of Thunder

Roll of Thunder. Setting. 1930s , the Logan homestead in rural Mississippi , an area of huge cotton plantations a nd small sharecropping farms. Sharecropping. Sharecropping is a system in which a tenant farms a piece of land for a share of the crop.

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Roll of Thunder

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  1. Roll of Thunder

  2. Setting 1930s, the Logan homestead in rural Mississippi, an area of huge cotton plantations and small sharecropping farms.

  3. Sharecropping Sharecropping is a system in which a tenant farms a piece of land for a share of the crop. Sharecropping was established for the cultivation of cotton in the United States at the end of the Civil War. The owner of the land provides the tenant with the land, animals, farm equipment, and seed. Tenants buy their food and personal supplies on credit extended by the landowner. When a crop is sold, sharecroppers receive a share of the money only after their debts have been deducted.

  4. The Great Depression Between 1929 and 1939, the United States experienced a period of severe economic depression. Banks collapsed, the stock market crashed, businesses failed, factories closed, and unemployment skyrocketed. Homeowners lost their homes, farmers lost their farms, and hungry people stood in long lines for free food.

  5. Mildred D Taylor (1943 - ) was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She grew up in Ohio, but her father’s family had lived in Mississippi from the time of slavery (1865!). When she was a baby, her parents moved their family to the north in Toledo, Ohio. Throughout her childhood, Taylor heard stories of these ancestors. Also, they often took many car trips back down south where she saw first hand SEGREGATION.

  6. When Mildred was ten years old, she was the only black child in her class and did not like the one-sided white history. • She tried to explain the black side, but her classmates didn’t believe her. So she decided to write.

  7. Later, as a novelist, she would draw on her family’s experiences. She has said that the story of her family is one of ordinary people who have done nothing more extraordinary than survive in a society committed to their destruction. Taylor graduated from The University of Toledo and taught English and history with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia.

  8. “It is my hope that to the children who read my books, the Logans will provide those heroes missing from the schoolbooks of my childhood, Black men, women, and children of whom they can be proud.” • Mildred D. Taylor

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