Study Guide

Having Our Say Characters

By Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth

Oh Sadie; don't you know we love you?Let us list the ways. Sadie has the quiet strength of her...

For some crazy reason, Bessie Delany doesn't think she's getting into heaven. Puh-leaze. In fact,...

This character analysis goes out to all those mamas who profit dollars and all the honeys making...

Henry might as well be Moses, because he leads the Delanys out of slavery and into the Promised...

Although Sadie and Bessie never have kids, they treat their nieces and nephews (and anyone in...

You don't have to be blood to be family, and Shmoop pities the fool who thinks otherwise.During...

They call James Miliam the "meanest-looking man in Pittsylvania County, Virginia," and for good...