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Professor Jay Clayton
Fall, 1996 - MWF 9:10-10:00
Calhoun 109
1855 Vera Louise Gray, pregnant, moves to Baltimore; True Belle, slave, goes with Vera Louise; leaves behind two children, May (age 10) and Rose (age 8) (142)
1873 Aug.: Golden Gray meets Wild, pregnant w/ Joe (144); Joe Trace born, Vesper Co., VA (123); raised by Rhoda and Frank Williams (123); taught to track by Henry Lestory (Hunters Hunter)
1870-90s successive waves of northern migration (33)
1876 Violet Trace born (138)
1886 Vienna burned; Joe and Victory wander (174)
1888 Rose Dear loses her house, land, and goods (98, 138); Rocky Mount hangings; Sept.: True Belle returns a free woman to Vesper (138)
1892 Rose Dear's suicide
1893 Joe hunts for his mother, Wild (175-78, cf. 36); marries Violet
1899 True Belle dies (138)
1901 Booker T. Washington eats at the White House; Joe and Violet evicted from land Joe bought (126)
1906 Joe and Violet take the train to NYC (107)
1917 riots in East St. Louis; Dorcas's parents murdered (57); July: march in NYC (54, 57, 128)
1919 Feb.: Armistice Day parade (129)
1925 Oct.: Joe meets Dorcas (68)
1926 Jan. 1: Joe shoots Dorcas (180); Jan. 3: Dorcas's funeral
(9); March: Violet visits Alice Manfred.
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