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Unloose my heart : a personal reckoning with the twisted roots of my southern family tree

Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina

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Summary: "A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Alabama Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERMAN-GIDDENS, MARCIA EDWINA HER

Examining "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth

David, Alex

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Contents: The need for change -- Fighting to be free -- "No union with slaveholders" -- America in 1850 -- The legacy of Sojourner Truth -- Primary source transcriptions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov David

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