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The Wake of the Wind

av J. California Cooper

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1893142,784 (4.11)10
A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South. The Wake of the Wind, J. California Cooper's third novel, is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War, the novel tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and the extended family they create from other slaves who are also looking for a home and a future, set out in search of a piece of land they can call their own. In the face of constant threats, they manage not only to survive but to succeed--their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others. Lifee and Mor pass their intelligence, determination, and talents along to their children, the next generation to surge forward. At once tragic and triumphant, this is an epic story that captures with extraordinary authenticity the most important struggle of the last hundred years.… (mer)
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    Family av J. California Cooper (petersonvl)
    petersonvl: I recommend reading Family first since it deals with slavery during the Civil War, then follow-up with Wake of the Wind b/c it addresses the plight of "emancipated" slaves during the early antebellum period.
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Again, Cooper blew me away. This was my second time reading this one, and it gave me a beautiful aching feeling. It's hard to describe. I'm not a crier, but I cried two times while reading this. First, when hungry run-away slaves insisted on overeating despite the prospect of suffering stomach aches since they hadn't eaten a decent, warm meal in five years. In fact, I both laughed and cried at that. I laughed b/c Cooper has mastered the art of what is almost impossible: successfully invoking a little humor in the most dire of predicaments. And I cried again when a character with a slavery-related physical deformity experienced love and intimacy for the first time ever - in old age. Really touching. There is so much that is right about this novel: the dialect, cadence, lyricism, story line, characters. It's literary perfection, and it's profound subject matter. ( )
  petersonvl | May 6, 2009 |
A group of former slaves come together as family, striving to live as free people in a post-civil war world.

Mor, Lifee and their adopted relatives want to live free in peace. Doing this meant staying one step ahead of the whites, who felt former slaves didn't deserve anything but poverty and servitude.

As I read this novel I was bracing myself for the moment when all they worked for would be taken away by the whites. Buying property, attempting to leave town, or having a prosperous farm brought unwanted attention from bitter whites. Mor and family were hard workers who used their skills to live well off the land. Instead of focusing on the violence of the post-civil war world, Cooper depicted a peaceful, loving family who simply wanted to be left alone to love each other and give their children the opportunities they were denied as slaves.

What the author does is show how former slaves were able to develop loving relationships and families despite a world that refused to accept them as human beings.
  firstperson | Nov 20, 2008 |
[Written in November 2001]

Finally finished 'The Wake of the Wind' by J. California Cooper.

One concept that touched home with me was with the sons of Mor and Lifee. They went away, bought property, returned to get their parents and take them there.

I have an account of my great-grandfather, James Jeter, doing the same for his parents. This was made apparent in his mother's, Emma Jeter, obituary.

So, this book resonates with my Ancestor's possible trials and tribulations - and gives me clues to what they might have done and why.

Two thumbs up!

Peace,
"Guided by the Ancestors"
http://geder.wordpress.com
  Geder | Feb 4, 2007 |
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Joseph C. and Maxine "Mimi" Cooper, my parents

Paris A. Williams, my chile
OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Every Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, or White person in life who tried to help any slave, particularly the African-American slave. AND those who have tried to help the Poor of all colors because it is true: The root of all evil is money.

There are so many names I have discovered during my research I cannot write them all down, but they are in my heart. I will name a few: Quakers of the Underground Railroad. Abolitionists who stood to gain nothing but God or death. And Adam Clayton Powell, Martin Luther King, Ronald Dellum, Beverly Smith of "Our Voices," the United Negro College Fund, Mary McLeod Bethuen, all African-American Colleges, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Maxine Walters, John F. Kennedy, SNCC, SCLC, CORE, the NAACP, NAG, CMFC, the Black Panthers, Stokeley Carmichael, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Robeson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Septima Clark, Thurgood Marshall, Bayard Rustin, Jon Carew, Richard Rodgers, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson. And others, others, others.
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ALL THE SLAVES WHO HAD TO LIVE THROUGH THIS AMERICAN BLOODY HISTORY AND OTHER BLOODY HISTORIES OF THE WORLD. THEY ARE THE REASON "WE" ARE HERE TODAY. I WILL NEVER BE ASHAMED OF MY ANCESTORS. IF YOU ARE...YOU ARE A FOOL.
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Prologue: "I am Africa. I am a place. I am a state of mind."

Chapter one: "Once upon a certain year, 1764 or so, over 200 yers ago, someone in the world requested a number of African longhorn steer and teh African men who knew these cattle and could breed and raise them on a foreign soil; the southern states of America."
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A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South. The Wake of the Wind, J. California Cooper's third novel, is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War, the novel tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and the extended family they create from other slaves who are also looking for a home and a future, set out in search of a piece of land they can call their own. In the face of constant threats, they manage not only to survive but to succeed--their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others. Lifee and Mor pass their intelligence, determination, and talents along to their children, the next generation to surge forward. At once tragic and triumphant, this is an epic story that captures with extraordinary authenticity the most important struggle of the last hundred years.

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