Uncle Tom's Children review

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! That is truly one of the great rallying cries of all time. (Trivia note: as you know, Patrick Henry is the source of that line. But, he probably cribbed it from Addison’s play Cato: A Tragedy which has the lines: “It is not now time to talk of aught/But chains or conquest, liberty or death.”) Richard Wright’s collection of short stories could well have been entitled with Patrick Henry’s immortal line. Instead, he called it Uncle Tom’s Children. Five stories … [Read more...] about Wright’s Unbearable Rage