Bibliograph

Kin, rooted in hope, Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford

Type

Label

Kin, rooted in hope, Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 9 to 12, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Kin

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

1398310204

Responsibility statement

Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford

Sub title

rooted in hope

Summary

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 AmericaA multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities

Target audience

juvenile

Classification