End of the Game and a Black Man Hunted Down
A white woman’s assault triggers a manhunt as Dr. Kirby and a companion flee with dope. A Black man fleeing in the woods cries Elishyah and begs for salvation before being captured and hanged near Big Bethel church, exposing racial tensions and a failed scam.
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Danny
Bishop
Atlanta
Dr. Kirby
Kirby
Hosses
Sam
Crick
Bishop Warren
Big Bethel Church
Withers Home and a Poet Pastor in a Lynching Tension
In a rural Alabama setting, Dr. Kirby and a friend dine with Daddy Withers and his wife, learning the old man writes poetry. A Boston publisher’s clipping and pride clash with fear of public mockery as a night wagon ride ends at a makeshift schoolhouse meeting where a lynch inquiry begins.
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Daddy Withers
Withers
Sam
Jigger
Lemuel
Dr. Kirby
Boston
Ant
Will
Buck Hightower
Buck
When We First Climb the Hill Phrase
A fragmentary quotation describes relief at a moment of choice not being within personal power. It captures a conscience relieved that the action was not one’s own to decide, reflecting internal musing on fate and responsibility.
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Bishop
Hlishyah
Sam
Elishyah
Mebby
Beck
Witherses
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Don Marquis
Doubleday, Page & Co
Tal
Fivo
Garette
Smithtown
Ike
Agin
Tha
the Nut Club
F. R. Morgan
Uni
Fis Paolographer
Thar
Alurigat
Rmorgan