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03224aam a2200445 i 4500 001 9E25712EED3911ECB65603C543ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220616010025 007 tb 008 220530t20222022meu d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1432898302 020 $a 9781432898304 035 $a (OCoLC)1322199702 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d KAH $d NYP $d IUK $d BKL $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Williams, Sheila $q (Sheila J.), $e author. 245 10 $a Things past telling : $b a novel / $c Sheila Williams. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 483 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print. $2 rda 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print Black voices 520 $a "Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace survives capture, enslavement, the Atlantic crossing, and a brief stint as a pirate's ward, acting as both a spy and translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born woman. Those skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she tries to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders. Throughout her life, Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman never loses her sense of self."--Back cover. 505 0 $a PART I: IN THE BEFORE TIME: Liberty Township, Highland County, Ohio May 1870 -- Man Killer -- Little Bird -- Ouidah -- Home -- The Tenth Day -- Carolina Cove, Queen's Bay, Jamaica About 1769 -- Caesar -- The Black Mary -- Caesar's Key -- Little One -- Medicine Woman, Too -- 1 Female Abt 16 Yrs Dark Well Formed -- North From Savannah -- PART II: THE DAUGHTER OF A STRANGE GOD: -- White Maple Grove, Chesapeake County, Virginia -- The Border Land -- Once in a while they'd give us a li'l piece of Sat'day evenin' to wash out clothes in the branch--Mary Reynolds -- Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.--Jeremiah 4:3, King James Version -- Patience -- Cloudsplitter -- The Wedding -- James's Wife -- Foreknower -- PART III: WISE WOMAN: Tomorrow -- The Scotsman -- Ned -- Baby Edward -- But They Will Not All Be Yours -- Maryam's Boy -- The Indian's Cave -- Alexander Edward McCulloch Grace -- PART IV: MOMMA GRACE: The River -- Partus Sequitur Ventrem -- Blackjack -- Eaton's Stop, Highland County, Ohio Summer, 1870 -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author. 650 0 $a Slavery $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American midwives $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women slaves $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Courage $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print Black voices. 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010924.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20221006011427.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220616010058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9E25712EED3911ECB65603C543ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search