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03462aam a2200649Ii 4500 001 B687B51AA68011EC81502DCE2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220318010028 008 210618t20222022nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0063097079 020 $a 9780063097070 035 $a (OCoLC)1257018352 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d MJ8 $d CLE $d RNL $d IK2 $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 First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2022] 300 $a 339 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's ward, acting as both a spy and a translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born wise woman, whose "craft" combines curated techniques and medicines from African, Indigenous, and European women. Those midwifery skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she walks the razor's edge trying to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders, who view infants born in bondage not as flesh-and-blood children but as investment property. Throughout her triumphant and tumultuous 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. 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. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 28 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611015322.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409042132.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314023505.0 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20231107010125.0 952 $l CXPC586 $d 20231028015355.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031758.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230328010712.0 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210024601.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203015738.0 952 $l GCPC771 $d 20230125012548.0 952 $l ELPC715 $d 20230110131715.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20221006011712.0 952 $l WMPC185 $d 20220907154200.0 $m F WIL 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220722010147.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220712011529.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20220708012927.0 952 $l FPPC224 $d 20220706010455.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220616010045.0 952 $l CIPB482 $d 20220603010217.0 952 $l WUPB305 $d 20220531010832.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20220517010229.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20220507011211.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220507010654.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220507010240.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220414010541.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220412014528.0 952 $l ZOPC437 $d 20220408113224.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220405014028.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B687B51AA68011EC81502DCE2FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search