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The Slaves Have Names: Ancestors of my Home (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Andrea Cumbo-Floyd (Autore), Jennifer Luitwieler (a cura di) Formato: Formato Kindle
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They lived with professors and waited on former presidents. They were masons and nurses, school teachers and field hands, 246 people owned by a man who struggled with the institution of slavery. Yet, almost no one knows their names.

When a white woman begins to study the history of the plantations these people built, the plantations where she was raised, she discovers that the silence around these people's lives speaks of a silence in her country's history . . . and in her own life.

Read this tale of American slavery and it's legacy here in the United States.
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Andi Cumbo-Floyd is a writer, editor, and historian who lives at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband and young son. She spends as much of her time as possible researching the stories of enslaved people and finds some of her greatest joy in meeting their descendants.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GUYNQDI
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 162 pagine
  • Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN ‏ : ‎ 149375016X
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Naomi
5,0 su 5 stelle Written very well, loved the way forgotten people get faces and names and stories again, told in a delicate way
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 aprile 2016
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I love this book! Starting out on facts, the author weaves a story around characters. While not creating a fiction story, and keeping the line between fact and imagination very clear.

Not a fictional novel, neither is it a book with lots of factual information about any of the characters. a lot of facts were lost or simply never recorded.

It's like you're standing in the slave graveyard listening to Andi dreamily tell the stories of the people buried there. She starts out with facts and then tries to think of what it would have been like for that person, why they did certain thinhgs, how they felt... It's easy to get caught up in the story, as she paints a picture of someone who really lived but ho we know barely anything about.

Statistics are derived from numbers about people, but those people are and were never just a number, no matter what people treated them like. They were a life with tears, laughts, dreams.
Names on a list can at best be found on gravestones and it's not just a grave or a name; It's a life with a story, complex, and it's sad if they get forgotten.

I love these stories, and want them with as much fact as possible but not dry and factual. Andi does a great job of doing this gently and tactfully, admitting she doesn't know, but can only try to undertand, geuss, emphatize.
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Malcolm Christison
3,0 su 5 stelle This is a beautifully written book by a caring and thoughtful writer
Recensito in Australia il 10 dicembre 2014
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This is a beautifully written book by a caring and thoughtful writer. Unfortunately the information available to her to flesh out her characters is so scant that they lack depth. We don't get know her characters because Andi doesn't know them. She obviously wanted to deal only with the facts, which I can understand, but these are too few to give us more than a glimpse of the tragic history of slavery that occurred in Virginia.
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Chad Thomas Johnston
4,0 su 5 stelle A Memoir that Uses History, Qualitative Research, Imagination, & Geography to Bring the Past to Life
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 8 giugno 2014
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When Andi Cumbo set out to write the research memoir, "The Slaves Have Names," she faced the seemingly impossible task of bringing the largely forgotten past of Bremo Plantation—and specifically, the lives of its slaves—to life. But somehow, she succeeded in doing so.

The flow of the book reminds me a lot of a good documentary, interspersing cobbled-together historical remnants of the lives of slaves—sparse biographies that Cumbo fleshes out with fiction in order to further humanize her subjects—with exposition about the plantation, the research process, and the author's own reflections on her research.

Honestly, Cumbo asks a lot of the reader in some ways. To read the story of one slave after another, especially when the information available is skeletal at best, is often disorienting—a bit like trying to keep up with one of Robert Altman's ensemble casts in one of his more ambitious films. I'll put it this way: If you're one of those people who have trouble remembering the names of the people you meet at, say, a new church, you're going to be thumbing through the pages from time to time, trying to remember who is who. But at the same time, the aim of the book as a whole is clear and clever. It represents the heart of an author who is fascinated by the plantation's past, but also possessed of a heartfelt sorrow for its slaves and their lots in life.

One reviewer here criticizes the overly serious tone of the book, and Cumbo's "sanctimonious" thoughts about slavery. I must say, I am a bit baffled by this. A research memoir like this is anchored in place by a singular author's perspective, and if that author happens to find herself humbled by her subject matter, and inspired to write prose that captures her own feelings about what she is writing, I think that is most definitely allowed. Encouraged, even.

It is her singular perspective and her heart for her subject matter, in fact, that make the past—however tentative—spring to life in the present for the reader. What she builds by the end of the book feels a bit like a house of cards that might come tumbling down at any minute, but that fragility is part of what makes it intriguing to me. Cumbo reminds us that when we do not chronicle the past, we lose it. A lesson worth learning for anyone and everyone.
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Mu
5,0 su 5 stelle Brings the Enslaved to Life - 4D without the need for glasses
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 7 febbraio 2014
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The author did a masterful job bringing to life the unsung, forgotten and invisible - the enslaved. As an amateur genealogist and citizen genetic genealogist I know first hand how often this subject matter can be staid and heavy. The dearth of data about most of the enslaved has rendered them either invisible or simple caricatures without faces. Andi turned these one dimensional views into 4D...and you don't have to sit in a theater with a pair of cheap glasses to see them.

The overall take is very different from most of the books about slavery. Their is an objectivity and humility the author displays about the subject matter - a candid admission that she feels for and about the enslaved there, but that she doesn't know what they nor their descendants felt like or feel. Refreshing in an era where everyone is an expert on everything.

I read the book over three nights, but could have read it in one day. The format flows and you are swept along with it.

Kudos Andi for bringing this to the table (CTTT) - can't wait for you next book.

H.M.
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Geraldine Wade
5,0 su 5 stelle Truly Outstanding Book
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 febbraio 2014
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I enjoyed reading "The Slaves Have Names." The fact of their existence was as fragile as a scent in the wind. My heart weeps for them. Their lives were hard and cruel. I praise them for their dignity and their will-power to survive. All they ever wanted was freedom, justice, fairness and a chance to thrive. I salute all of them: Ben Creasy, Judy, Solomon, Jeffrey, Anthony, Jack, Cyrus, Leander, Archer, Primus Randall, Betty, Frank, Toby, Gilbert, Cary, Nancy, Dinah, Lydia, George Skipwith, Mary, William, John, James, Lucy, Jenny, Ursa, Critty Ann, George, Isham Gault, Hannah, Dick, Kessiah, Charles, Cain, Matthew, Frederick, Charles, Cary, Albert, Abby, James Skipwith, Patsey, Minerva, Tom, Daphne, Madison, Monroe, Oliver Creasy, Judy, Mollie, Lucy, Nash, Tucker, Maxwell, Lavinia, Martha Ann, Agnes, Ardelia, Charles, Robert, Marshall, Anthony, Lavinia Ann, Champion, Dilcey, Anaky, Lucy Skipwith, Betsy, Marie, Ned, Betsy, Nelson, Peyton, Eliza, Diniri, Gruff, Aggy, Daphne, Minerva, Letty Tompkins, Letty Gault, Lucy Nicholas, Jesse Nicholas Skipwith, George, Lavinia Ann, Jesse, Erasmus, Gerry, Jasper, and John. You will never be forgotten! RIP
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