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Linda Sheehan's avatar

Hi Kathy...putting it on my list. Our Banned Books group is reading Stamped, a YA by Jason Reynolds’s and Ibram X. Kendi. I think its intent is working; feeling very uncomfortable while reading.

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Kathy Leonard Czepiel's avatar

Ah, great! I love that you have a Banned Books group.

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Julie Hulten's avatar

Many a New England fortune was made via the slave trade. Doubly interesting that it was written by Htfd Courant writers. Thanks for the recommendation ... arghh ... I will live forever if it depends on my finishing by TBR pile! ;-)

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Kathy Leonard Czepiel's avatar

Ha, I feel your pain!

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Kathleen Cietanno's avatar

I went to hear this author speak. She was so outraged that she never knew how the North profited from slavery. The room was as quiet as a church. Loved the book and and her other title, The Log Book: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory. What a shocking revelation that Ct history and wealth were so connected to the evils of slavery. Everyone needs to read this!,

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Kathy Leonard Czepiel's avatar

Wow, wish I'd heard her, too. Thanks for raising up the other title, Kathleen.

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Claire Zoghb's avatar

“Former warehouse”… chilling. Thanks for introducing us to this book, Kathy!

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Kathy Leonard Czepiel's avatar

You're welcome! Chilling, indeed.

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