Danielle L. McGuire

Imagine being a woman. A woman with 23 children. Now imagine that 20 of those children are the result of being raped. Imagine that your daughter is so fearful of being attacked, too, that she routinely carries a pistol with her when she works outside. Imagine further that her daughter, your granddaughter, is arrested, beaten bloody and naked by law enforcement for peaceably protesting that culture of violence. Such has been the life of the Southern black women, and this book does a remarkable job of vividly documenting what is really just the tip of the iceberg, just the most notorious, the most historical cases. Having read a great deal about the Civil War and the Southern slave culture, I have also found myself following up by reading on life in the South after the war ended. This is a very important book in detailing a critical part of that history and deserves our attention. Highly recommended.… (altro)