It is hard to understand how hope could endure in conditions like those the enslaved lived under, yet the author shows the love, connection, resilience, and reclamation of a people whose voices are essential to the narrative of slavery and of our country.
In multi-voiced, first-person poems and dramatic scratchboard illustrations created by my son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, Kin conjures the voices and stories of our ancestors and their contemporaries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.