During one of his nightly runs, he is shot and killed. Booker experiences financial difficulties, which force him to steal cotton from other farmers. The two marry, have a son named Willie, and Booker becomes a sharecropper soon after they marry. While living in Stockton Flora meets and falls in love with Booker Palmer. Once there, she gains employment and shelter through the Reverend Jackson. She gives birth to a boy and names him Luke, but is forced to give the baby to the Flemmings to raise.įlora then travels by train to the city, but is instead directed by a fellow passenger to go to the small town of Stockton under the advice that a young woman such as her should not go into the city alone. Flora takes the offer, planning to go to Memphis, Tennessee. Flora later discovers that she is pregnant with Lincoln's child, which prompts his wealthy family to bribe her into leaving Mississippi to avoid scandal.
This prompts her to become evicted from the house. After experiencing him shun and shame her in front of his rich contemporaries, Flora begins to feel used and refuses to sleep with him anymore. Eventually Flora becomes sexually involved with Lincoln and believes the two of them to be romantically involved. Lincoln wants her to come care for his elderly grandmother Nana at his home, to which she agrees. The young Flora meets the wealthy Lincoln Flemming at a dance one night. In 1998 the book was adapted into a made for TV miniseries of the same name. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens.
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