A Child of Slaves
A Child of Slaves
In this chapter, Harry Haywood talks about his childhood and his family, his first years in school, and the conditions in which he lived at the time. He was born in South Omaha, Nebraska, on February 4, 1898—the youngest of the three children of Harriet and Haywood Hall. The 1890s had been a decade of far-reaching structural change in the economic and political life of the United States. These were fateful years in which the pattern of twentieth-century subjugation of Blacks was set. A young U.S. imperialism was ready in 1898 to shoulder its share of the “white man’s burden” and take its “manifest destiny” beyond the Pacific Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. At the time when Haywood was born, the overwhelming majority of Black people still resided in the South. His parents were born slaves in 1860. His father was born on a plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee. Tennessee at the time was the home of the Ku Klux Klan.
Keywords: slaves, Harry Haywood, childhood, family, South Omaha, Nebraska, Blacks, Tennessee, Ku Klux Klan
Minnesota Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
