Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

9 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Classism, Racism, Death, and Slavery

Moderate: Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, Gun violence, Violence, Torture, Confinement, Child death, Medical trauma, Genocide, Colonisation, Gore, Forced institutionalization, and Ableism

Minor: War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Rape, Car accident, Animal death, Mass/school shootings, and Infidelity

skitch41's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Torture, Slavery, and Genocide

hexedmaiden's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

One of the best books about ghosts. As someone who does believe or at leasts wants to believe the possibility of ghosts I loved the way that Colin Dickey talks about how we the living make these places haunted more than any ghost could. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Child death, and Genocide

Minor: Sexual violence, War, and Rape

ninjamuse's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Racism

Minor: War, Hate crime, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Violence

softanimal's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Death, Colonisation, Slavery, and Racial slurs

Minor: Confinement, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

savvy999's review

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.25

Dickey serves as an apt and able guide through an American landscape of the deceased. With pointed social commentary and well woven historical research, and illuminating storytelling this book  managed to excavate a very American fear and guilt of what we have done to make ghosts in/ and of this country. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Slavery, and Violence

geeky_spider's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

Anyone who find ghost stories interesting and wants to look into why, should read this book immediately! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Racism

Moderate: Rape

This is a history book that asks the question why these topics are or are not seen in ghost stories.

ashley_elizabeth's review

challenging dark informative reflective

4.0

A spectacular exploration of not just "haunted" places, but also the idea of what it means to be haunted and what we mean when we talk about ghosts. Aside from plenty of historical information, there are several points of sociopolitical commentary that made me think of the idea of haunted places a little differently. 
A note - being that this book tackles some of the terrible eras of American history, please be prepared for a brief but graphic description of physical harm to those who were enslaved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Torture

malloryfitz's review against another edition

informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Slavery, Racism, Murder, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence