Importance of Henry Sweet

Henry Sweet is the father of Ossian Sweet. He grows up in the post-Civil War South and is the first in the family to buy land. Bartow, Florida is the place where Henry, and wife Dora, settle to raise their family. The atrocities and dangers of the Jim Crow South cause him and Dora to worry about their family and to send Sweet North to Wilberforce when he is thirteen.