Ruth Ann

An amazing woman

Revisado: 12-16-18

Wow! Lucy Parsons was an incredible woman with the strongest force of will you can imagine. The Chicago setting for most of her adulthood made this doubly interesting.

The narrator could have slowed down a bit and used pacing and pitch better to convey sentence structure. Also, the narrator or audio editor should have checked on the correct pronunciation of place names. Several were pronounced incorrectly every time - for example, Waukesha, Wisconsin is pronounced WAWK-eh-shaw, not Wau-KESH-ah.

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Excellent historical background for today

Revisado: 11-04-18

Critics of the Black Lives Matter movement who compare it unfavorably to the Civil Rights movement need to read this book to understand what it really took to reach the hard-won achievements of that era.

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Essential reading

Revisado: 06-17-18

Barraccoon is the story of a man from the last slave ship to come to America, in 1858. Although not the oldest from that group, the man later known as Cudjo Lewis was 19 when he was captured, so he had nearly reached adulthood in his own culture. He was ripped away from his life in Africa, spent 5 1/2 years in slavery, and was forced to spend the rest of his life in the U.S. because the cost of passage back to Africa was beyond the means of former slaves living in poverty.

Eventually he married a woman who had also been captured as a teen from Africa. Tragically, they lost four (or five?) of their children to illness and violence by whites, and one who disappeared as a young man — a victim of violence or possibly drowning.

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