No Small Potatoes
In the book Of Junius George Grove A.K.A. the"Potato King" who was enslaved and was in debt for one year and after that he had gotten acres which helped him pay off his debt and enjoy his life with Matilda E .
No small potatoes
Junius G. was called the potato king because he planted lots and Lots and LOTS of potatoes!
Summary of the Text
The book No Small Potatoes is by Tonya Bolden and Don Tate. The theme of the book is to never give up no matter what. This book is about a man named Junius George Grove. He was born in slavery and raised in sharecropping . He was also called the "Potato King" And turned 8 acres into 8O acres. And in all his years he never gave up on himself.
Debt: you owe something but you don`t have enough of it.
Reconstruction: making something again
Connection to the Reconstruction Era
Sharecropping is connected to the book because he got lent eight acres and turned it to eighty acres.He went into a lot of debt cause share cropping is getting lent tools but cost a lot or a little more but its always gonna be more so you will go in debt . And he became really successful and paid off all of his debt. And became the "Potato King" because no one had planted as many potatoes as him.