Gabriel Prosser leader of a slave revolt in 1800 in Richmond, Virginia.
George Raft popular character actor of the 1930s and 40s who frequently played smooth, menacing underworld figures in gangster movies.
German Brot dark, round glazed loaves of rye or wheat bread.
Gettin' Up Morning a Negro spiritual that describes resurrection in idiomatic terms separate the sheep (them) from the goats (the whitefolks) a reference to an image in Matthew 25:32 which pictures the separation of the saved from the unsaved as the action of a shepherd dividing sheep from goats, which are known to be quarrelsome with more peaceable animals.
Gladstone hand luggage composed of cloth or leather sides attached to a rigid frame.
go down on suffer a setback or defeat.
God is love. John 4:8.
God is not mocked. a portion of verse seven from Paul's letter to the Galatians, in which he warns that "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
gray rococo façades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London The ornate surroundings call up memories of San Francisco's post-Gold Rush heyday, when Diamond Lil earned fame for saloon performances and writers like Robert Service and Jack London preserved the atmosphere in picaresque poems, stories, and novels such as "The Cremation of Sam McGee," "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," Songs of a Sourdough, Tales of the Fish Patrol, and Martin Eden.
had pull with influenced.
hants haunts, or ghosts.
harlot in the Bible John 8:3-11.
He who can hear, let him hear an altered version of Ezekiel 3:27.
hermaphrodite a person born with both male and female sex organs.
Horatio Alger Graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Alger (1832-99) wrote 130 books in three series — Ragged Dick, Luck and Pluck, and Tattered Tom — about determined boys who work their way up from poverty and obscurity to fame and riches. Altogether, the Horatio Alger series sold twenty million copies.
House Un-American Activities a committee of the U. S. House of Representatives convened to eradicate fascists, communists, or other un-American infiltrators through intimidation, public disclosure, or imprisonment.
How long, oh God? How long? a plea often heard in spirituals, possibly having its roots in Psalms 13:1 and Isaiah 6:11. George Bernard Shaw ends his drama Saint Joan with Joan asking, "How long, O Lord, how long?"
I came to Jesus, as I was, worried, wound, and sad, I found in Him a resting place and He has made me glad. an approximation of the third and fourth lines of verse one of "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say," an evangelistic hymn written by John B. Dykes in 1868 to a tune by Horatius Bonar.
I hungered a random summary of Matthew 25: 35-40.
in alum drops that is, bitterly.
indlay ergbay ildrenchay literally, lindberg children — that is, victims of kidnapping, like Charles Lindbergh, Jr., who was later found murdered.
inferno dwelling that is, living through the childhood hells of humiliation, hate, and abuse.
Iwo Jima a volcanic island south of Tokyo, Japan, and the site of a costly battle by American Marines in February 1945.
