The author, Jasper Rastus Nall, offers the perspective of a black man whose life …show more content…
The organization of this novel is very fluid, purposeful, and understandable to the reader. In its contents, Nall begins with the stories of his family line passed down to him before branching into his own. Within these tales, he is persistently attentive in recording every relation to not only himself but also to other family members and even their slave masters. To illustrate, when writing in regards to his maternal grandmother, he begins stating, “Her mother was the daughter of an Irishman who had settled in the South and had become a slave-owner.” (1) Records of his forbearers their surnames are of great significance in documenting his family’s past and proving Nall’s capability as an author giving a factual, candid description of bygone