The people in the quarters continually hope for a leader like Moses who will help them leave the plantation. By the time Jimmy Aaron is five or six years old, Jane and the others are already wondering if he is the "One." Jimmy's father is unknown and his mother left to find work in New Orleans shortly after his birth, so Jane and the other women of the quarters are his surrogate mothers. His love for reading and learning inspire the hope that he will be the "One." However, when he returns from schooling in New Orleans and asks the church members to begin demonstrating like Dr. Martin Luther King, they all but refuse. Jimmy is shot for his political activism but his death causes passive people like Jane to take a stand,.....
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