Gaines, Ernest J.

Two young African-American men, one condemned to death for a murder and the other a teacher, form a bond in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s.

An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the twentieth-century civil rights demonstrations.

Presents five short stories dealing with early to mid-twentieth-century African-American life among the old cane plantations of Louisiana.

A collection of stories and essays in which Ernest Gaines shares the inspirations behind his books, explains why he became a writer, describes the events from his childhood that shaped his life, and discusses his portrayal of the black experience in the South.

An escalating spiral of hatred and violence erupts between Marcus, a young prisoner bonded to work in the fields of the Herbert Plantation, and his Cajun overseer Sidney Bonbon.