Research on Pilate

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19              Riverboat pilot or Christ-killing Pilate

36ff           Milkman meets her

40-43         Pilate tells story of the death of her father

92              Pilate’s and Reba’s generosity “was so wholehearted it looked like carelessness”

93-95         Pilate confronts Reba’s man (“belonged” to Pilate)

97              Pilate’s inheritance

124-126     Ruth tells the story of Milkman’s conception (and Pilate’s role)

140-151     Pilate’s story after leaving Macon

205            Pilate’s behavior to the white policemen

206-208     Pilate’s story of her “inheritance”

207            Pilate quotes the Bible (to the white policemen), but she gets it wrong (or does she? See Matthew 22:2ff)

283            Pilot Dead she do any flying?

333-334     Learns the truth about her inheritance

335-336     Her death: If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

336            Crow snatches the brass earring with her name; she could fly