Sweet Potato Pie
By:
Eugenia
Collier
Sweet
Potato
Pie
Eugenia W. Collier is an AfricanAmerican writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction Award.
Born: 1928, Baltimore, Maryland, United
States.
Books: Breeder and Other Stories.
Education: University of
College
Park,
Columbia
Howard University.
Maryland,
University,
Building
Backgrou Sharecropping nd This was a farming system practiced in the South in years between the Civil War and the
World War II.
Landowners allowed formerly enslaved people to live on and farm a portion of their land in return of ½ the crop.
If Landowners would supply equipment, seeds, and animals sharecroppers only keep 1/3 of the crop.
The sale of this share of the crops couldn’t be enough for the sharecroppers, so they were kept in poverty.
1940s the use of mechanical harvesting ended much of the need for sharecroppers.
Summary
…
Buddy was the youngest child in a Afro-American poor family. They lived in poverty; their parents were only sharecroppers. The oldest brother
Charley took important part in Buddy’s life. He was more father than brother. Because of the poor condition, education was almost ignored in
Buddy’s family, but his parents and Charley encouraged him as the youngest child to continue his study. Moreover, Charley used to say that
Buddy must break the chain of poverty by education and becomes
“somebody”.
Buddy finished his school successfully and became a professor. When their parents passed away; every child founded a new family of their own.
One day, Buddy had a professional meeting in New York, the city where
Charley and Bea his wife were settled. He stayed in 5 th Avenue Hotel.
Charley and Bea were excited to have Buddy visiting their home.
Charley mentioned that several months back he had picked up a kid from Buddy’s school, and Charley asked the kid whether he knows
Buddy or not. The kid told Charley that Buddy was the best teacher he ever had.
Eugenia
Collier
Sweet
Potato
Pie
Eugenia W. Collier is an AfricanAmerican writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction Award.
Born: 1928, Baltimore, Maryland, United
States.
Books: Breeder and Other Stories.
Education: University of
College
Park,
Columbia
Howard University.
Maryland,
University,
Building
Backgrou Sharecropping nd This was a farming system practiced in the South in years between the Civil War and the
World War II.
Landowners allowed formerly enslaved people to live on and farm a portion of their land in return of ½ the crop.
If Landowners would supply equipment, seeds, and animals sharecroppers only keep 1/3 of the crop.
The sale of this share of the crops couldn’t be enough for the sharecroppers, so they were kept in poverty.
1940s the use of mechanical harvesting ended much of the need for sharecroppers.
Summary
…
Buddy was the youngest child in a Afro-American poor family. They lived in poverty; their parents were only sharecroppers. The oldest brother
Charley took important part in Buddy’s life. He was more father than brother. Because of the poor condition, education was almost ignored in
Buddy’s family, but his parents and Charley encouraged him as the youngest child to continue his study. Moreover, Charley used to say that
Buddy must break the chain of poverty by education and becomes
“somebody”.
Buddy finished his school successfully and became a professor. When their parents passed away; every child founded a new family of their own.
One day, Buddy had a professional meeting in New York, the city where
Charley and Bea his wife were settled. He stayed in 5 th Avenue Hotel.
Charley and Bea were excited to have Buddy visiting their home.
Charley mentioned that several months back he had picked up a kid from Buddy’s school, and Charley asked the kid whether he knows
Buddy or not. The kid told Charley that Buddy was the best teacher he ever had.