Word: cunningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue is wakened by his father before dawn, told to come along, leave his mother and his home forever. Blue's mother has played the whore: Blue is the only child his father knows to be his own. Together they are going back to Blue's father's parents, Cun Fred...
...Cun Fred is foreman of a big cotton plantation. Aun Fan, a midwife, "catches" the plantation hands' pickaninnies when they are born. Except for Big Pa, Blue's mother's wonder-working grandfather who back in Africa had been great King Taki's oldest son, Cun Fred and Aun Fan are the most influential people in the settlement. With them Blue's father, going farther afield himself, leaves Blue to make his home and fend for himself...