Monday: meeting! School, book group
Apr. 29th, 2024 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI thought I was going to be driving out to a meeting, but R. went instead and I attended virtually and got A. to school. It seemed to go well.
I read _Master, Slave, Husband, Wife_, the story of Ellen and William Craft, their self-emancipation, the abolitionist world of Boston and elsewhere, including the post-abolition (pre us civil war) world of England, and eventually the post civil war era in the United States. It’s great, because it’s an amazing adventure story, but also because the author included a lot of genealogical type research and material in supplying the full context of the various personalities their encounter in the arc of their life (as well as their own extended family). I knew about the failed revolutions of the mid 19th century, but had never considered their interaction with the abolitionist movement — that was revelatory. I now have a much more nuanced and detailed understanding of the various threads of activism and how different people moved within those activist communities.
Book group was a great discussion of that book. I’m super excited that A. suggested Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood, another amazing, woman centered, woman authored story of a very, very different kind of life.
I read _Master, Slave, Husband, Wife_, the story of Ellen and William Craft, their self-emancipation, the abolitionist world of Boston and elsewhere, including the post-abolition (pre us civil war) world of England, and eventually the post civil war era in the United States. It’s great, because it’s an amazing adventure story, but also because the author included a lot of genealogical type research and material in supplying the full context of the various personalities their encounter in the arc of their life (as well as their own extended family). I knew about the failed revolutions of the mid 19th century, but had never considered their interaction with the abolitionist movement — that was revelatory. I now have a much more nuanced and detailed understanding of the various threads of activism and how different people moved within those activist communities.
Book group was a great discussion of that book. I’m super excited that A. suggested Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood, another amazing, woman centered, woman authored story of a very, very different kind of life.