Tucker Caliban and Reverend Bennett Bradshaw as Leaders

Reverend Bennett Bradshaw is introduced as a youth and characteristic of his age he is idealistic and naïve. He believed that Negro leadership had “followed in the footsteps of the Negro overseers of plantation times. Each is out for himself and money is the thing” (157). As roommates in college Bradshaw and David Willson discussed what contributions they could make to the Negro movement; hoping together to lead “peoples to the things” they “felt were right for them” (177). However, Willson’s friendship with Bradshaw did not give David the courage needed to rebel

Tucker gives the townspeople the courage and faith in themselves to do what had been in their heart to do for years. To break loose from the chains that has for so many years bound them to the town, their jobs, their homes and their way of life. As the men on the porch watch the Negros leave they are perplexed, unable to understand the reason behind their migration. But how could they understand? As much as white men and women claim to understand the “struggle” the reality of is that they have no idea. The African American has been abused, degraded and manipulated for hundreds of years. He has served the white man and plowed his fields until he has lost his sense of self.

Tucker gives the townspeople the courage and faith in themselves to do what had been in their heart to do for years. To break loose from the chains that has for so many years bound them to the town, their jobs, their homes and their way of life. As the men on the porch watch the Negros leave they are perplexed, unable to understand the reason behind their migration. But how could they understand? As much as white men and women claim to understand the “struggle” the reality of is that they have no idea. The African American has been abused, degraded and manipulated for hundreds of years. He has served the white man and plowed his fields until he has lost his sense of self.

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