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knod78's review
5.0
What an amazing book to listen to knowing that some women took their situations into their own hands and did something about it. And I loved that Michelle Williams was the narrator, and the last story was about Galveston (she's born close to there).
ooohgoshtara's review
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Black Women’s stories are so often underrepresented and not told especially in U.S. history. And that’s what makes this book so powerful. Well researched and informative. I would now like to know more about the black feminist practice of justice as a form of resistance to slavery.
butterbrioche's review
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
Much of my research as a historian focused on enslaved Black people fighting for their freedom and escaping on English and Scottish soil. I definitely engaged with acts of rebelling but I didn’t focus too much on it in school. I am forever grateful, though, that more scholarship continues to come out about the various methods that Black women specifically used to fight for their own freedom and even secure it. More often in this book, we see these Black women meet their demise but I will forever be grateful that the author decided to write a book about this. There’s always questions about whether violence is the answer but what if all you’ve known is violence? What if that was your first memory? I implore people from various backgrounds to seriously engage with this an unpack their feelings about what violence is necessary as opposed to “violence never being the answer”.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Slavery
Moderate: Sexual violence
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