Volume 53, Number 17 · November 2, 2006
Branding in America
By Darryl Pinckney
Apex Hides the Hurt
by Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 212 pp., $22.95
Ralph Ellison talked about the formerly enslaved looking for freedom in the West of the old Indian Territory after the collapse of Reconstruction in the early 1880s. Oklahoma, where Ellison was born in 1913, had been a sanctuary for runaway slaves and it continued to attract the descendants of freed slaves
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