Misanthrope's Corner - retelling of "Gone with the Wind" from African-American perspective - Brief Article - Column

National Review, May 14, 2001 by Florence King

Mitchell is also accused of making her black characters happily docile, but this is disproved by a trenchant exchange in Chapter 35 that goes by so fast that only real GWTW aficionados remember it.

After the war, Scarlett, in Atlanta to entrap Frank Kennedy, tries to send Mammy out to buy rouge, but the shocked Mammy refuses. Furious, Scarlett orders her back to Tara, but Mammy's retort paints a portrait of social change in one brushstroke:

"You kain sen' me ter Tara ness Ah wants ter go. Ah is free."