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SUMMARY:One Maryland One Book Discussion
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LOCATION:106 S. North Street, Accident, MD 21520, United States
ROOM: One Maryland One Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we discuss the 2025 One Maryland One Book, K
 in: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston WeatherfordA powerful portrait of a Bl
 ack family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poe
 ms by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and stunning art by her s
 on Jeffery Boston Weatherford. "Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherfor
 d’s ancestors are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history t
 here extends more than three hundred years, but as with the genealogical s
 earches of many African Americans with roots in slavery, their family tree
  can only be traced back five generations before going dark. And so from s
 craps of history, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin
 , creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their p
 eople were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all 
 too universal.Carole’s poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors t
 o Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land it
 self that connects them all, and Jeffery’s evocative illustrations help 
 carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as property in
  a 1781 ledger to he and his mother’s homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. 
 Shaped by loss, erasure, and ultimate reclamation, this is the story of no
 t only Carole and Jeffery’s family, but of countless other Black familie
 s in America."
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