Their Eyes Were Watching God takes place during the 1920s and '30s and is set in a series of all-black communities in rural Florida. After the Civil War, former slaves formed a number of towns all over the South, in an effort to escape the segregation and discrimination they experienced among whites. By 1914, approximately thirty such towns were in existence. Eatonville,.....
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