Hybrid in form\, and even more expansive i n what it has to say\, "Kin: Rooted in Hope" is a book created by\, and ab out\, a Black family and its generations.
\nPoet and children's auth or Carole Boston Weatherford and her son\, artist Jeffery Boston Weatherfo rd\, collaborated on this book that gives voice to their earliest enslaved ancestors back to the founding of Maryland. With each poem and its accomp anying illustration\, Carole and Jeffery tell their family story through e ach of their kin and the world they lived in: the Chesapeake Bay\, the pla ntation house\, Frederick Douglass\, Harriett Tubman\, and more. The selec tion committee was enthralled by how "Kin" uses art and poetry to illumina te what can't be said by historical records (when they are available)\, in a vital story that is about Maryland's past and its present.
\nPlac e a hold on \;Kin: Rooted in Ho pe. \;
\nOne Maryland One Book is a program of Maryland Hum anities and the Maryland Center for the Book\, sponsored by The Institute of Museum and Library Services via the Maryland State Library Agency.
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