This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Harriet's great-great grandmother, who was a slave at the time. She tells Harriet that she has a copy of her key to the farm, and that it is dangerous for her to be at the place. She asks if there is a safe place to keep the kumi, and she asks if Harriet wants to kill her brother. Harriet says that she does not want to think that she is the killer, but that buck is still a killer. She thanks Malcom for recording the private conversation, and says that