![]() ![]() Before the feast, Cora talks to her friend Lovey, a kind and simple young woman who-unlike Cora-enjoys dancing. One day, the enslaved population on Randall is preparing a birthday feast for Jockey, an enslaved man who picks random days on which to celebrate his birthday. Soon after, she was gang-raped by four enslaved men. Cora destroyed the doghouse with a hatchet and cut off the dog’s tail. Soon after Cora was placed there, she had a confrontation with a man named Blake who built a wooden house for his dog in Cora’s garden. ![]() ![]() After Mabel ran away, Cora became a “stray” and was placed in Hob, the cabin for “wretched” women. Cora spends every Sunday tending to her garden, which she inherited from Mabel (who inherited it from Ajarry). The narrative jumps to Cora’s adolescence-she is still living on Randall. Ajarry dies of a brain hemorrhage while working in the cotton field. Ajarry has three husbands and five children, and the only one of the children that survives is Mabel, Cora’s mother. The protagonist Cora’s grandmother, Ajarry, is kidnapped from Africa as a child and brought to America, where she is sold many times before ending up on Randall plantation. ![]()
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