After a failed reckoning, participants scatter with full knowledge of what was lost

Evidence

When the dream was slaughtered and all that love and labor seemed to have come to nothing, we scattered….We knew where we had been, what we had tried to do, who had cracked, gone mad, died, or been murdered around us. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 70

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is Baldwin’s own description of the after times — the scattering that follows a slaughtered dream, a key concept for the reader’s book.