James says, "With my pencil, I wrote myself into being." He must do this. Telling the truth of his history and therefore his people is visceral and crucial to their existence. He owes it to himself and to all the others like him. In primis he owes it to young George who stole the pencil …
Tag: slavery
Mobile inheritance
All That She Carried, by Tiya Miles, revolves around a cotton sack from the mid-1800s and its contents. The contents, save one, aren't even particularly exceptional: a tattered dress, a lock of hair, three handfuls of pecans. And love. The worn cotton sack was embroidered, in 1921, by the person who it belonged to at …
Manu writes 