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The Resource Things past telling, Sheila Williams

Things past telling, Sheila Williams

Label
Things past telling
Title
Things past telling
Statement of responsibility
Sheila Williams
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's ward, acting as both a spy and a translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born wise woman, whose "craft" combines curated techniques and medicines from African, Indigenous, and European women. Those midwifery skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she walks the razor's edge trying to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders, who view infants born in bondage not as flesh-and-blood children but as investment property. Throughout her triumphant and tumultuous life Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman never loses her sense of self
Cataloging source
YDX
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Williams, Sheila
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
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  • Slavery
  • African American women
  • African American midwives
  • Enslaved women
  • Courage
  • Enslaved persons
Target audience
adult
Label
Things past telling, Sheila Williams
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1257018352
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
339 pages
Isbn
9780063097070
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1257018352
Label
Things past telling, Sheila Williams
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1257018352
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
339 pages
Isbn
9780063097070
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1257018352

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