Post by Claudia TenElshof on Jun 7, 2016 10:14:52 GMT -5
In the 1930's, people were very racially segregated. Even though slavery had ended, people with different color skin were not respected as much as the people with white skin. Many former slaves were too poor to buy their own land. Therefore a good deal of them became sharecroppers on the wealthy, former plantation owner's land. In this way the rich could still dominate over the people with black skin, controlling them even after they were free. However, the Logans did not have to resort to this post-slavery slavery. Paul Edward Logan was able to buy 400 acres of land for their own- no one else had a say in their lives anymore. By buying their own land, the Logans are able to become independent. This is what gives them their sense of pride and self-respect- that they have a secure foothold keeping them from falling on this slippery world of complex segregation and inequality: their land.