Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

2 reviews

princxporkchop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Slavery, Child abuse, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Blood, Child death, Genocide, Misogyny, Torture, Miscarriage, Racism, Ableism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Infertility, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Confinement, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Gore

maria_egnatz_alexander's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

This was a challenging book to get through. I’m a white women who has read lots of books regarding racial disparity before. The testimonies and information are presented very matter-of-fact which really emphasized the calloused business nature slavery was given. There were many times I turned off the audiobook because even listening to it felt disrespectful. I think it’s important to know the reality of the past do we understand how we arrived at our present. That said, I don’t know when it would ever feel appropriate to hear the things white Americans have forced on Black people as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Incest, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship