Alice Walker demonstrates in “Am I Blue?” the story of a solitary horse who has many acres of land to run on but is left alone to roam the grass. Blue had been given a partner one morning, who went by the given name Brown, the two having then reproduced, one is led to believe. The author then notes how Brown was not there one day, so she asked around to learn what happened “The children next door explained that Blue’s partner had been “put with him” (the same expression that old people used, I had noticed, when speaking of an ancestor during slavery who had been impregnated by her owner) so…