ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a story: the story of the prodigal son, from the fifteenth chapter of Luke. The story talks about a plantation in the South, about 150 years ago. One Sunday morning on this plantation, the slaves stood outside a church and listened to the worship service through the window. They heard the messages and the songs about brotherhood and heaven. And after the service was over, they stood and watched the worshipers, all white, go back up the hillside to their respective places of abode, dressed in their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and their shiny shoes. Even in the classical age, in the Greek state, when a person saw children playing in the yard he could always tell the children of the householder from the children of the slave by the fact that the children of the householder had on shoes while the children of the slave were barefoot. Shoes became a symbol of the householder.
