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* At the end of ''The Shirt On His Back'', January asks Abishag Shaw's permission to name January's new son after Abishag's dead brother. This is heartwarming enough--especially from a black Creole to a white American--but the implied familial affection makes it especially touching, since Shaw's kin have all died or disowned him.

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* At the end of ''The Shirt On His Back'', January asks Abishag Shaw's permission to name [[spoiler:name January's new son after Abishag's dead brother. This is heartwarming enough--especially from a black Creole to a white American--but the implied familial affection makes it especially touching, since Shaw's kin have all died or disowned him.him]].

* One of the final scenes in ''Sold Down the River'', when January finally learns what happened to his father after he (January) was sold to St-Denis Janvier along with his mother and sister. [[spoiler: Jumah, as his name was, didn't abandon them - he sneaked away from the plantation as often as he could to go and see his family. But only from a distance, since January had to learn to act like a free man, and he couldn't learn that from a father who was a slave.]]
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* At the end of ''The Shirt On His Back'', January asks Abishag Shaw's permission to name January's new son after Abishag's dead brother. This is heartwarming enough--especially from a black Creole to a white American--but the implied familial affection makes it especially touching, since Shaw's kin have all died or disowned him.

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