, 2008). Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population then whites, so when the votes came about the blacks were voting for the republicans whom would be fighting for black people's rights, the ratio is said to be 4:1 blacks. White southerner's seen themselves as above the law, honor and slavery gave them that idea, but blacks seen themselves outside the law they couldn't go to court because the court system was controlled by whites and the only way they felt as if they can gain respect and fairness is by taking things into their own hands. White gangs soon evolved out of this and violence begin to overrun the county of Edgefield. In the process of the violence taking place Aaron Bosket witnessed a lot of his friends lives taken by the hands of a white man and soon enough became numb to the killings that were going on around him. During the craziness that would be going on in the county Aaron would bring to the slave world a son whom he would name Clifton aka Pud. .
Pud is Willie's great- grandfather growing up through the madness of the 1890's. Pud would take a different approach to what he is seeing go on around him on a daily basis. Pud wanted respect growing up and he did not want to fear or run. However the fact that it was the 1890's in which was the most violent time for African Americans due to the fact that Jim Crow laws were imposed, segregation, lynching was very popular, as well as blacks lost the right to vote. This would propose many violent occurrences for Pud to become a part of, when he was 19 years of age he watched his in law of the bosket family named Will Herrin to be lynched. Will Herrin was lynched for killing his white land lord over not receiving pay. Will was a poor sharecropper, just like Pud. Pud's family was very poor, and he worked as a sharecropper as well as working in an environment where the white farmer would whip him while at work.
