What Insight Does Big Ma?s Account Give Us Of The Logan Land Essay, Research Paper
??????????? Big Ma?s account Re-enforces what
the land symbolises, the Logan family are very lucky to have their own land,
for them it symbolises independence and freedom.? Big Ma is very protective over the land and takes Harlan Grangers
threats to get the land back very seriously.?
Big Ma starts telling Cassie of how her and Paul Edward got married and
he bought the land.? She says that Paul
Edward was born into slavery and when he was two years old slavery was
abolished.? When Paul Edward was 14 his
mother died so he left the plantation where he grew up and came to
Vicksburg.? Big Ma tells Cassie that
despite having a good job as a carpenter Paul Edward wanted some land of his
own to work on and then he discovered that Mr Hollenbeck was selling his
land.? Edward Paul bought 200 acres of
land from Mr Hollenbeck who was eager to sell it.? Mr Hollenbeck had bought the land from the Grangers and now
Harlan Granger wanted it back.? The
Grangers had sold the land because after the War they had no money and both
northern and southern soldiers had ransacked their land.? The Grangers had to sell two thousand acres
of land to pay the taxes the owed
acres of the land and then when the Grangers had made back the money that they
had lost Mr Hollenbeck offered to sell the land back to them for a lot less
than the land was worth but the Grangers didn?t want to buy their land back
even for such a small price.? Mr
Hollenbeck then made the land available for everyone to buy and that?s when
Paul Edward bought 200 of then 400 acres of land the Logan?s own.? Including Paul Edward?s land Mr Hollenbeck
had sold one thousand acres to small farmers and he sold the other thousand to
Charles Jamieson.? Charles Jamieson?s
son Wade Jamieson sold another 200 acres to the Logans when he left to study
law.? When Harlan Granger took over from
his father he wanted to get back every acre of land that his father had sold
but Paul Edward and Charles Jamieson refused to sell back the land.? Then when Charles Jamieson died, Wade
Jamieson decided to leave and he sold 200 acres of land to Paul Edward and the
rest to Harlan Granger.? Wade Jamieson
decided to only sell 800 acres of land to Harlan Granger and he sold 200 to
Paul Edward, even though if he had sold all one thousand acres to Harlan
Granger he would?ve got more money.cc