"Po' Sandy" is the second story in Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman. The reader learns in the first story that John, the white narrator of each story's frame, and his wife Annie have recently moved to North Carolina from the North. Subtleties in the first story, "The Goophered Grapevine," reveal that although the move was made ostensibly for Annie's health, in reality John has complied with the doctor's recommendation in order to take advantage of the cheap land and labor which are a consequence of the Civil War. Essentially, then, this white man is a carpetbagger. Chesnutt uses this character--ironically--in the tradition of the "authoritative" voice framing such works as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Harriet Ann Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Rather than validate the narrative to come, in the opening and closing frame of each story of Chesnutt's collection John attempts to discredit the black narrator of the conjure tales, "Uncle" Julius. The reader soon recognizes, however, that Julius is the true authority in the collection; like Douglass and Jacobs, he is an authority on slavery.