Slim is released from his second stint in jail just months from his twentieth birthday. Through a con of her own, Pepper sends Slim to jail for the second time. Pepper teaches Slim many of his "freaky" sexual tricks he will use on women in future years. He is released and meets a woman at his mother's beauty salon named Pepper. They are eventually busted and this setup sends Slim to jail for the first time at age 17. He has a relationship with a girl and asks her to turn a trick for him. He is recruited to go to Tuskegee University, but drops out after getting into a scandal with the local college girls. Eventually, Party Time is busted and goes to jail for a year, though he never reveals Slim's name to the police.īy this time, Slim is 15 years old and graduates high school with a near-perfect 98.1 grade point average. They pay Party Time to meet the mysterious hooker, but by the time they walk down the alley, Slim takes off through the alleyways. Together, Party Time and Slim work a small-time con with Slim dressing up as a woman and pretending to be a black hooker to entice white men to meet "her" down an alley. Years later, Iceberg spots an older Steve working as a garbage man and run to the street with his gun in his hand to kill him, but not even noticing Slim, Steve moves out of range as he is doing his job of collecting the garbage cans. Slim waits for Steve by his apartment with an ice pick to kill him, but he never reappears. Slim's mother misses Steve although they have separated until Steve sees her and assaults her physically. Slim's mother leaves Steve and they go to live in a hotel. At one point, Steve even smashes Slim's kitten against a wall for defecating on the floor. Living with Steve is a nightmare for Iceberg. Telling his father Steve is a cousin, they literally rob Slim's father of everything he owns in order to pay him back for leaving her all those years ago. Steve and Slim's mother plot to take revenge on Slim's father. Henry dies a year after Slim and his mother leave him. He misses Henry for the rest of his life. Iceberg is destroyed by leaving Henry and cries as hard as he can. Giving Henry a weak excuse that they will return again soon, Slim's mother packs up Iceberg and meets up with Steve. Slim's mother, however, falls in love with a scoundrel named Steve. Henry reciprocates the affection and loves Iceberg and his mother immensely. Henry is the only father figure Iceberg has in his lifetime and is the best person in his life. Slim and his mother move to Indianapolis afterwards and a man visiting his relatives, Henry Upshaw, immediately falls in love with Slim's mother. He is left alone with a babysitter named Maude who sexually abuses him when he is only 3 years old. From then on, his mother tries to raise him on her own, but since there is only one parent and she is responsible for supporting them both, Slim is often left alone as a child. As an infant, his father becomes enraged and slams his body against a wall, walking out on the family. Originally, Slim is little more than a con man in the streets, but after learning and listening from the other men in the jail who used to be pimps, he is enticed and decides to take on that lifestyle for his own.Īs soon as Slim is born, he has problems. He recounts his childhood and the choices he made that led him to become a pimp at the age of nineteen, after a stint in jail. Ultimately, Slim's novel is a book about the choices a black man has in the world before desegregation. Through various events in his life, he ultimately becomes a pimp in between jail stints. In his book Pimp: The Story of My Life, Iceberg Slim recounts his personal autobiography as a intellectually-gifted teenager growing up in the world before desegregation.
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