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ohsarahkay's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
4.0
tophat8855's review against another edition
4.0
Good overview of the role white women had in promoting, maintaining, and perpetuating slavery in the South. The buying, selling, gifting, inheriting, exploiting, and abusing enslaved people by women gets overlooked or glossed over. This isn't a thorough deep-dive but it does share what has been neglected in telling.
pompomegrantes's review against another edition
challenging
informative
4.5
A well-researched, informative and upsetting read. Tactfully graphic and real, with various first-hand accounts from people of different backgrounds. Some parts did feel slightly repetitive for my liking, though that did enforce how common certain opinions were at the time.
k_lenn's review against another edition
4.0
This is an impressively thorough and well-researched book, backed by evidence gathered from interviews with formerly enslaved people, journal entries, newspaper ads, etc. It's far from an easy read, especially when the author speaks about the emotional and physical torture enslaved people were forced to endure, but it's important and challenges a popular misconception.
It's a bit repetitive which was distracting, but the information is all there and easy to understand.
It's a bit repetitive which was distracting, but the information is all there and easy to understand.
narbine's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Important book that I would urge any white american to read. I pride myself on my knowledge of slavery & anti-Blackness & capitalism in America but this book made me learn new connections and strengthen others. A few times I had to stop reading because of how evil some things were. The citations gave me LOTS of resources to dive into.
I would recommend people buy this and mark it up to really ensure comprehension.
I would recommend people buy this and mark it up to really ensure comprehension.
alicia_ann_reads's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.5
I'm struggling a little with how to rate the book because reading it made me angry, but the content is so highly highly important for specifically white women to read.
I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long while, and reconciling it with what I was taught and what I've learned.
I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long while, and reconciling it with what I was taught and what I've learned.
11corvus11's review against another edition
DNF, but not because there's anything wrong with this. But, if you already know about this sort of thing, it may just feel like unnecessary trauma. It would be good to hand to white women who practice white feminism or anyone who puts white women in the class of only-ever-victims.