{"id":14655,"date":"2024-12-21T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=14655"},"modified":"2024-12-21T19:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:52:30","slug":"in-slaverys-wake-making-black-freedom-in-the-world-edited-by-paul-gardullo-johanna-obenda-and-anthony-bogues-written-by-various-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/in-slaverys-wake-making-black-freedom-in-the-world-edited-by-paul-gardullo-johanna-obenda-and-anthony-bogues-written-by-various-contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"In Slavery\u2019s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World, edited by Paul Gardullo, Johanna Obenda, and Anthony Bogues, written by various contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"

c.2024, Smithsonian Books\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>
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\n240 pages<\/em><\/p>\n

By Terri Schlichenmeyer<\/em>
\nThe Truth Contributor<\/em><\/p>\n

Ever since you learned how it happened, you couldn\u2019t get it out of your mind.<\/p>\n

People, packed like pencils in a box, tightly next to each other, one by one by one, tier after tier. They couldn\u2019t sit up, couldn\u2019t roll over or scratch an itch or keep themselves clean on a ship that took them from one terrible thing to another. And in the new book In Slavery\u2019s Wake<\/em>, essays by various contributors<\/strong>, you\u2019ll see what trailed in waves behind those vessels.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to be told about the horrors of slavery. You\u2019ve grown up knowing about it, reading about it, thinking about everything that\u2019s happened because of it in the past four hundred years. And so have others: in 2014, a committee made of \u201ckey staff from several world museums\u201d gathered to discuss \u201ctelling the story of racial slavery and colonialism as a world system\u2026\u201d so that together, they could implement a \u201cten-year road map to expand\u2026 our practices of truth telling\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Here, the effects of slavery are compared to the waves left by a moving ship, a wake the story of which some have tried over time to diminish.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tale filled with irony: says one contributor, early American Colonists held enslaved people but believed that King George had \u201cunjustly enslaved\u201d the colonists.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the story of a British company that crafted shackles and cuffs and that still sells handcuffs \u201cused worldwide by police and militaries\u201d today.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tale of heroes: the Maroons, who created communities in unwanted swampland, and welcomed escaped slaves into their midst; Sarah Baartman, the \u201cHottentot Venus\u201d; Mar\u00e8me Diarra, who walked 200 miles from Sudan to Senegal with her children to escape slavery; enslaved farmers and horticulturists; and everyday people who still talk about slavery and what the institution left behind.<\/p>\n

Today, discussions about cooperation and diversity remain essential.<\/p>\n

Says one essayist, \u201c… embracing a view of history with a more expansive definition of archives in all their forms must be fostered in all societies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019ve been completely unaware and haven\u2019t been paying attention for the past 150 years, a great deal of what you\u2019ll read inside In Slavery\u2019s Wake<\/em> is information you already knew and images you\u2019ve already seen.<\/p>\n

Look again, though, because this comprehensive book isn\u2019t just<\/em> about America and its history. It\u2019s about slavery, worldwide, yesterday and today.<\/p>\n

Casual readers \u2013 non-historians especially \u2013 will, in fact, be surprised to learn, then, about slavery on other continents, how Africans left their legacies in places far from home, and how the \u201cwake\u201d they left changed the worlds of agriculture, music, and culture. Tales of individual people round out the narrative, in legends that melt into the stories of others and present new heroes, activists, resisters, allies, and tales that are inspirational and thrilling.<\/p>\n

This book is sometimes a difficult read, and is probably best consumed in small bites that can be considered with great care to fully appreciate. Start In Slavery\u2019s Wake<\/em>, though, and you won\u2019t be able to get it out of your mind.<\/p>\n

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c.2024, Smithsonian Books\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $39.95\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 240 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Ever since you learned how it happened, you couldn\u2019t get it out of your mind. People, packed like pencils in a box, tightly next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[20],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book_review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14657,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions\/14657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}