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Book

Cousins : connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past--and each other

Call Number

  • 920 B1811 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Lancaster, PA : Walnut Street Books, [2021]

Physical Description

244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, conacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? Open to exploring difficult truths and sharing an admiration for Dr. Martin Luther King, they embark on a path toward reconciliation. Each tells her dramatic story--from Betty's experience desegregating her county's only high school, to Phoebe's eventual question to Betty: "How do I begin to repair the harms?" Piecingly honest. Includes a working reparations project which the two women conceived together"--Page [4] of cover.

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Added Authors

Phoebe Kilby