A review by laurabrantreads
My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk about Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina by

5.0

Themes: The church in America is/was complicit in slavery. Every slave interviewed mentions what they were taught in church, specifically, the command to obey masters. The incorrectly interpreted Bible verses were used to justify and uphold the institution of slavery as Biblical. Few slave owners, no matter how nice, allowed slaves to learn to read and write. Former slaves felt differently about pre- and post-slavery in America. All slaves were deeply disturbed by the selling of fellow slaves. There was fear of the paddywagons. It was powerful to read the actual words of people who were enslaved and then free.