Acknowledgments

I am deeply grateful to the people who helped me with this book. It is always a pleasure to work with an editor like Toni Morrison, and I thank her for the opportunity. I am also indebted to Ruth Ann Stewart and J.M. Stifle for their research work, to Earl Conrad and Mrs. Helen Armstead-Johnson for their help, to Mary Ellen Arrington, who typed the manuscript drafts. A special thank-you to Kathy, without whom this book would not have been possible.

Jim Haskins, 1977