A strawbeater's thanksgiving

By Irene Smalls

Subjects: Thanksgiving day, fiction, African Americans, Corn, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Wrestling, Slavery, Mothers and sons, Competition, Fiction, Husking, Children's fiction, Honor, Determination (Personality trait), Juvenile fiction

Description: Determined to be the strawbeater during the corn shucking party, Jess, a small young slave boy, wrestles a bigger, stronger boy for the honor.