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Kin - Rooted in Hope
Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford
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R213
Discovery Miles 2 130
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A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement
and freedom, rendered in searing poems by acclaimed author Carole
Boston Weatherford and stunning art by her son Jeffery Boston
Weatherford. I call their names: Abram Alice Amey Arianna Antiqua I
call their names: Isaac Jake James Jenny Jim Every last one,
property of the Lloyds, the state’s preeminent enslavers. Every
last one, with a mind of their own and a story that ain’t yet
been told. Till now. Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s
ancestors are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history
there extends more than three hundred years, but as with the
genealogical searches of many African Americans with roots in
slavery, their family tree can only be traced back five generations
before going dark. And so from scraps of history, Carole and
Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often
painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in
a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too
universal. Carole’s poems capture voices ranging from her
ancestors to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation
house and land itself that connects them all, and Jeffery’s
evocative illustrations help carry the story from the first mention
of a forebear listed as property in a 1781 ledger to he and his
mother’s homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. Shaped by loss,
erasure, and ultimate reclamation, this is the story of not only
Carole and Jeffery’s family, but of countless other Black
families in America.
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