iflamme for biblical and black folk religion. Instead of having her daughter be corrupted by Lucas's greedy money-hunting scheme she would gladly seek out a divorce. She upholds the black side of the family (i.e. Molly) by being such a pious and pure-hearted person.
             Also she recongizes the importance of taking the oral tradition a step further and putting it in writing when her nephew Samuel dies. She wants what happened to be immortalized so that everyone can know the struggle that he underwent. She knows that the only way to do this is to venture out into what she is unfamiliar with and put it in the newspaper even though she can't read.
             3) Cass Edmonds acted as Ike's father unlike Sam Father's who acted as his spirit mentor (i.e. he taught him beliefs not how to live). Cass acted more a
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