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dredadonx's review
challenging
dark
sad
tense
5.0
Whew. WOW.
Slavery, misogynoir, and ontological racism goes back so far. Books like these are highly important because we are not taught EVERYTHING about how they treated descendents of African people as chattel. This was a harrowing read on how the Black Body was used for Yt supremacist capitalism and colonialism's gain.
Please read at your own discretion and check content warnings.
Slavery, misogynoir, and ontological racism goes back so far. Books like these are highly important because we are not taught EVERYTHING about how they treated descendents of African people as chattel. This was a harrowing read on how the Black Body was used for Yt supremacist capitalism and colonialism's gain.
Please read at your own discretion and check content warnings.
sunnyone66's review
3.0
This is an incredibly hard book to rate. On the one hand, the subject matter is deeply important and the personal stories deserve widespread attention. On the other hand, the writing was incredibly academic and repetitive and very challenging to read most of the time.
alexrobinsonsupergenius's review
3.0
Important if horrifying subject matter but the writing style is very academic and somewhat repetitive.
honeyvoiced's review
challenging
informative
fast-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Racial slurs, and Racism
Moderate: Rape and Body horror
lexesmikasa's review
5.0
I'm so happy I stumble across this book one day. The fact of the matter is, there are more subjects related to Slavery and our ancestors that are simply not researched, not talked about, or acknowledged. To understand how valuable they were from the womb and even after death is an eye opener and more importantly, I appreciate that she took the time to research cadavers and how their bodies were not just mutilated after death, but stolen from their rightful burial places. There was information in this book that truly helped such as laws enacted for enslavers to still consider them property even in death and have the rights of allowing their body to be taken into medical research. Real accounts of women and men who were sold because of sexual reasons were just truly an eye-opener. To expand your knowledge or gain knowledge about a topic overlooked, I highly recommend this book
freemajo's review against another edition
3.0
Very dry despite a profusion of primary sources. This would have been better as a long peer reviewed article.