Can I get book recommendations?

[PlutosHeart]

I am in a book group focused upon Jane Austin and all things historically surrounding the time. Today someone recommended a book by a conservative that am sure has a totally warped viewpoint on slavery, race and this country.
Is there a good book I can suggest for the group to read that speaks about slavery and also even Indigenous that is accurately historically focused and an enagaging read? Not looking for a novel but more of an educational based read.THX.

[ancianita]

1. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019,

edited by historians Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. (2021)

I taught African American Literature (foregrounded in the context of its history) for 30+ years, and this book blew me away in combining what/who we don't know with what we know. I had no idea how much more I would learn by reading it.

I also recommend 1619, but I think 400 Souls is more of a page turner.

[PlutosHeart]

8. Excellant! THX!

[Bayard]

2. Lots of Indigenous history books

A good place to start is, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee." A few other suggestions "Stolen Continents", "Black Hills, White Justice", "Custer Died For Your Sins", and, "Killers of the Flower Moon," (Just saw the movie--the book is better.)

[PlutosHeart]

4. My husband

before he retired, was the Head of Indian Studies at a University. Taught history. So am familiar with some of what you recommended. Will check out Stolen Continents though. Mostly seeking trans- continental slavery based and related.
Good to know your thoughts about Killers of the Flower Moon movie vs book. On the good side if anything, it is showing at a newly renovated old theatre in this most conservative town right now. Might be good for educational purposes though, eh?

[ancianita]

12. I loved Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States.

Your husband probably knows all about it. Beautifully organized by city and region, and their cultural influence on those places today.

[Bayard]

16. I will look that one up

Thx

[people]

3. Books by author Tiya Miles

This is a wonderful author who teaches at Harvard. Ms. Miles has written about Cherokees and slavery. Look at these books by her: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005/2015), The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (2010) and The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts (2015) a work of historical fiction.

I read Things That She Carried recently, which was great. That book is about a cloth bag made by a mother, who was a slave, for her daughter who was being sold. The bag is housed now in the Smithsonian Arican American Museum.

[PlutosHeart]

6. THX!

[Timeflyer]

5. Recommended--Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas--memoir, written in 1845.

Very enlightening. Read it when I was pretty young and undereducated. Shocked to learn that slaves were not allowed to be taught to read---can't imagine life without reading. Echoes of the Afghanistan Taliban attempts to keep women uneducated.

[PlutosHeart]

7. I forgot about that one.

I may need to make that my birthday gift to myself.

[wryter2000]

9. One of Austen's novels takes a strong anti-slavery stance

I think it's Mansfield Park.

[wryter2000]

11. Oh, and

There's a movie in that time period about a black daughter of a wealthy Englishman being raised by his family after his death. Very Austen but about a young woman of color who has money trying to cope in that society. It's called "Belle,"

[PlutosHeart]

14. Yes. it is on Hulu I believe.

We are reading Paula Bryne's book Belle. The Slave daughter and The Lord Chief Justice.
The movie is good and yet encased in a palatable form of viewing for some which is not always so bad.
Paula was also one of the consultants on PBS's Sanditon. She is a nice person.

[PlutosHeart]

13. Yes. Her family had some

abolitionists. She was aware of slavery most certainly as was also indicated by her unfinished 11 Chaptered Sanditon. Which btw, I will recommend the tv series.
And yes, Mansfield Park.

[iemanja]

10. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[PlutosHeart]

15. Sold. I need that one.

Am distraught over Clarance Thomas having his Bible. Or one of them. Ugh.