broken spirits

after Mawus beating the spirits are broken 1 by 1. Phillips hopes are dashed when Drayle won;t sell him to the black barber who's daughter he is in love with, MAqu's beated, Reenie is being molested nightly. Lizzie was being cold shouldered by them all for telling. At a loss for companionship she seeks out Glory, the white Quaker woman in the woods for companionship. THis is a new and strange friendship for Lizzie who hasn;t before had an equal relationship with a white woman. Then Sweet gives birth finally but the baby is sickly and dies a few days later.

Lizzie tries to gigure out how to act with Glorys husband and reconcile her "rules on how to act with white men" when around him. All of whihc begin with "don;t look them in the eye". Glory deperatley wants a child of her own but can;t seem to conceive. All in all they end the summer in a sad place, with all of them worse off than when they went to Tawawa house.