Like Sadie, both her mother and grandmother were healers. The bowl was brought from the Congo by Sadie's grandmother. The story that follows is about a shard from a broken bowl. When his hat is discovered in the river, Sadie assumes he is dead. Jim is then caught on the Stevens plantation, beaten, and subsequently flees. One night, while Jim sleeps, Sadie cuts a small section of fabric from his hat to keep for herself as a reminder of him. Jim remains on the Watson plantation, but he routinely slips away to visit Sadie and his children.
Mas Watson dies, and his slaves-including Sadie and her children, Lizbeth and Jonnie-are sold to cruel Mas Stevens. Sadie identifies Jim's beloved hat as the thing that makes her fall in love with him. Jim is hired as a longshoreman by Master "Mas" Watson, the man who enslaves Sadie. Next, Sadie picks up a piece of fabric from Jim's hat to relay the story linked to it. The first is a knife, which Sadie got from her own mother, who had used it to perform medical treatments and healing work at a plantation where she was enslaved. She tells Marianne the stories behind each object. The second section of My Jim, "Sadie Watson," is a series of stories highlighting the connections between several objects and formative events in Sadie's life. Marianne's predicament compels Sadie to talk about Jim and her children Lizbeth and Jonnie. Her grandfather, Papa Duban, is dead, but Marianne, close to her grandmother, does not want to leave Shreveport. In the first, titled "Marianne Libre," it is 1884, and Sadie Watson's granddaughter Marianne must choose whether to stay in Louisiana or move away to marry. Since Twain's novel doesn't elaborate on Jim's backstory, My Jim gives the character a rich history that highlights the barbarity of slavery, the beauty of first love, and the sacrifices one makes out of family responsibility.
He is the same Jim from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a runaway slave who rafts with Huck down the Mississippi River. At the same time, it is a love story revolving on Sadie's relationship with Jim, who himself is something of a literary icon. My Jim (2005), an historical novel for young adults by award-winning American author Nancy Rawles, is an account of Sadie Watson, who survives the horrors of slavery and the upheaval of Reconstruction.
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