In “A Gathering of Old Men,” a character worries that the cane-cutting machines are “trying to get rid of all proof that black people ever farmed this land with plows and mules.” The character laments that his people “worked too hard, too hard to have that tractor just come in that graveyard and destroy all proof that they ever was.”
— From the New York Times: “Writer Tends Land Where Ancestors Were Slaves”
