Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance

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作者Merideth M. Taylor

出版社New Village Press

ISBN9781613322406

出版时间2024

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页数193页

货号Y21

上书时间2024-06-29

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商品描述: A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland

For over 165 years, plantation owners in Southern Maryland depended on the labor of enslaved men, women, and children to bring in the tobacco crop. The photographs and stories in this book grew out of the author’s quest to understand how these people, who were subjected to a system that made every attempt to brutalize and dehumanize them, were able not only to survive but to build families and meaningful lives. Author Merideth Taylor has created a credible, well-researched, richly imagined world that is both informative and moving. The traditional central figure and linear plot of the novel has been replaced by an interwoven collage of scenes and community of characters, that reflect the diversity of experience, “silences,” and incompleteness of the historical record. Her choice to largely avoid graphic depictions of the violence perpetrated on enslaved bodies allows the reader to focus, instead, on the remarkable resilience, ingenuity, skills, and cultural strengths that enabled them to make a way out of no way.

Author royalties will be donated to Historic Sotterley’s Descendant’s Project.

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