Rosa Millard

This fifth Unvanquished story, begins immediately after Rosa Millard's death in "The Unvanquished." Although Granny - as Bayard calls her - is being buried when it begins, she remains powerful in her absence: "Vendee" is about the quest undertaken by Bayard and Ringo, the slave who also called her Granny, to get revenge on Grumby, the man who murdered her. The multitude of people who attend her funeral - "more than a hundred," according to Bayard (97) - includes whites and blacks, and both hill people and town people from Jefferson, which speaks to her influence and status within the community. In the end the boys return to her grave with a trophy from Grumby's own death, so that "she can lay good and quiet" (115).