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Book

Gather at the table : the healing journey of a daughter of slavery and a son of the slave trade

Call Number

  • 306.362 D524 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2012.

Physical Description

xvii, 212 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Foreword / by Joy Angela DeGruy
  • Introduction
  • Crossing the rubicon
  • The recalcitrant bat
  • Castaways from security island
  • Friends on purpose
  • Lizard brain
  • Shades of gray
  • Many rivers to cross
  • The past is present
  • Colored water
  • Cycles of violence
  • Forks of the road
  • Grave matters
  • The crossroads of liberty and commerce
  • Truth be told
  • The devil's half acre
  • Truth, mercy, justice, and peace
  • Ripples on a pond
  • Notes on methodology
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes.

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