Sublime

Moreover, Harriet Stowe had made a black man her hero, and she took his race seriously, and no American writer had done that before. The fundamental fault, she fervently held, was with the system. Every white American was guilty, the Northerner no less than the slaveholder, especially the churchgoing kind, her kind.

No one there had seen Delroy. If he wasn’t enrolled, the security guard told her with apparent sincerity, and he came on campus, someone would know. Kelly left a photo with the guard and did her own lap around the school. A few of the girls recognized her and gave her dark looks or threw their signs, but kept them low and close, as it was cause for

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin,

of freedom expressed in this spiritual?