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          : Richard Nathaniel Wright born September 4 on Rucker's Plantation, twenty miles east of Natchez, Mississippi, the first child of Nathaniel Wright, a sharecropper, and Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher who gave up teaching soon after Richard was born for farm work.

          He grows up in one of the most poverty-stricken and rigidly segregated parts of the South.

          : Unable to support themselves on a farm, the Wrights go to Natchez to live with her family.

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        5. Richard accidentally sets fire to house of his grandparents, the Wilsons

          : Nathaniel and Ella move with their children to Memphis in search of better employment. Nathaniel works as a night porter in a hotel and Ella works as a cook for a white family until Nathaniel leaves his family to live with another woman.

          : Ella moves with her sons to Elain, Arkansas, to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Maggie and Silas Hopkins.

          Richard becomes close to Silas.

          : Uncle Silas, a relatively prosper