![]() ![]() Jones kills Henderson, and so leaves town again, for the North. The two lives, already linked by name, town, and racial system (John Jones’s sister Jennie works as a maid in the Judge’s house), intersect one fateful day, when John Jones discovers John Henderson sexually assaulting Jennie in a wood. From the same town, “the other John,” John Henderson, the white, entitled son of Judge Henderson, sails off to Princeton without a thought for his navigation. ![]() Years later, he comes home to find himself alienated by his education and limited in opportunity. John Jones, an African-American full of promise, leaves the small town of Altamaha, Georgia, to get an education. One of the most moving chapters in W. E. B. Du Bois’s collection of essays, “ The Souls of Black Folk,” is a fiction, a harrowing hypothesis titled “Of the Coming of John.” It tells the story of two young men bound by the same first name. ![]()
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