During the cotton harvest season, Momma awoke at four in the morning to sell lunches to the crowd of cotton laborers before they began the day's grueling work. In the morning, the laborers were full of hope and energy, but, by the end of the day, they barely had energy to drag themselves home. They always earned less than they hoped, and they often voiced suspicions about weighted scales. For her whole life, the stereotype of happy, singing cotton pickers enraged Angelou. The laborers never earned enough to pay their debts, much less enough to save anything.

. What is the significance of the sermon delivered at the annual revival?

The black Southern church constituted an avenue for subversive resistance. At the revival, the preacher gave a sermon that criticized white power without directly naming it. He never mentions white people, but his diatribe against greedy, self-righteous employers was clearly an

Annie Henderson - Annie Henderson was Angelou and Bailey's paternal grandmother. She raised them for most of their childhood. She owned the only store in the black section of Stamps. The store was the lay gathering place for the black community. The children soon began to call her "Momma." She raised them according to stern Christian values and strict rules. She was never given to emotional displays, but both children felt her love anyway. Her life experience made her a strong woman, and she survived the Depression with her business intact.

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