About the book: year / June 1957. In one of the states of the American South, a young black farmer, Tucker Caliban, unexpectedly kills his horse, sprinkles salt on his fields, burns his house, and rushes to the north of the country with his wife and children. His action causes a mass exodus of the entire black population of the state. Suddenly, because of one man, an entire world order collapses. First published in 1962, The Other Drummer, decades after its publication, stands as a unique triumph of satire and the spirit of struggle..