PLACES IN PITTSBURGH AND BEYOND
1839 Wylie Avenue: the kitchen, the parlor,
out front, across the street, out back, the wall
out back, aunt Ester’s room, upstairs: Mary and
Citizen’s rooms
the Hill District, Allegheny County: The
Third Ward, Webster Avenue, Arcena Street,
Colwell Street, the jail, Caesar’s bakery,
Reverend Flowers’ church, Reverend Tolliver’s
church,
beyond the Hill District: Logan Street,
the Brady Street Bridge.the rivers: Ohio,
Alleghenny, Monongahela (upriver, downriver),
the barge, the mill, Blawnox, Rankin, Clairton,
Scotch Bottom, Little Haiti, Hazelwood
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PLACES BEYOND THE PITTSBURGH AREA
Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Cincinnati,
Kentucky, Alabama (down there)
Opelika, Alabama
West Virginia
Charleston, South Carolina
Guilford County, North Carolina
the country farm
the underground railroad, “that Railroad Band”
the swamp holes and back ways
Canada, Freedomland
the battlefield
the ocean, the middle passage, Africa
the Gem of the Ocean
the City of Bones, the Gate
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PROPS USED AND ITEMS MENTIONED
a wagon with pots and pans
bucket of nails, piece of rope
seventeen rings
Solly’s walking stick, shoes
the Bible
letters, money, laundry
dog shit, pure
a license
vegetable knife, water bucket
two pennies
Aunt Ester’s pipe
Aunt Ester’s bill of sale, the boat
Caesar’s warrant for Solly’s arrest
Citizen’s carry bag with a few nails, shoes
a vigil candle
chains
shotgun
oil lamps
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Selig’s new horse Sally from Jacob Herlich
Garret Brown
Jefferson Cullpepper
Solly’s Special Rider,Butera
Percy Sanders and Robert Smiley
Leroy, John, Cujoe, Sam, and Robert
Cephus, Jasper, Cecelia, Junebug
Eliza Jackson
the candy man, the people, the crew
the mayor, the police, Judge Homer S. Brown
John Hanson, Harry Bryant
Jilson Grant
Abraham Lincoln, General Grant
Caesar and Black Mary’s mother and Uncle Jake
William Cullen Bryant
Jesus, Samson, God, Satan, Europeans,
William J.Ogburn
Mama, Miss Ester Tyler
Mrs. Robinson and the kids
Roper Lee
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FOOD PREPARED AND MENTIONED
pot of soup, cornbread, beans, pigfeet, bag of
groceries, vegetables, loaf of bread, hoecakes,
whisky, vegetables, biscuits, baby lima beans,
ham hocks
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ADDITIONAL IMAGES AND IDEAS
pigs
a broken wheel
fire, fire wagons
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