![]() ![]() Even there, however, he distrusted "every word and every gesture of every white man on earth." In contrast, Morrison's mother, Ramah, a more educated, trusting person than her husband, was a gentler, less confrontational parent to young Chloe Anthony Wofford, who would become world-renowned Toni Morrison, 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() Morrison's father, sharecropper George Wofford, had similar reasons to escape racial oppression in Georgia and relocate in the North. She recognized that "whatever I did was easy in comparison with what they had to go through." From them, Morrison absorbed stories and tales about the horrors of black life during the Reconstruction era - roughly, the twelve years following the Civil War - when the southern states that seceded from the Union were politically restructured and economically restored. Her maternal grandfather, a Kentucky carpenter and farmer, saw no chance for advancement because of the state's racism and poverty, so he moved his family to Ohio. Although she grew up in the North, southern traditions played a large part in Toni Morrison's upbringing. ![]()
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