Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation Nature_Gift_Guide Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since

Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old

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Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows—a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations

Anna charts the relentless ambition of the woman who would become an icon

the Fox and the Horse comes a gorgeously illustrated fable about a young child’s journey into the world beyond the shadow of home

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation Nature_Gift_Guide Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken sinceIf the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this historical, literary masterpiece (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste systeminstead of obliterating it. To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation