Found lots of new notes on this book, so am reposting the updated post, which incorporates a few explanatory links as well… -Shira
This might become more of a rant, but I doubt it. This book needs more circulation, and Black History needs more attention. See the book review first (for which I just found my reading notes in my old Research notebook, and have updated the post, May, 2023…):
A Free Man of Color and His Hotel: Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government by Carol Gelderman
Here is yet another important book on Black History in DC that I read in 2010, but neglected to review, in the rush to leave DC, and then finish editing Stayed on Freedom’s Call (linked to below, in the .sig…). Gelderman’s book (of which I seem to recall confusing at first with another book carrying a title like ‘The Wormley Hotel’ or such, which likely explains the long title without Wormley’s name for this book…) details the success of…
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(in terms of how various classes of people spoke during this period), and with the author’s extensive notes at the back of the copy I borrowed from the DC Public Library, with her annotations responding to contemporary criticisms of her novel with verified incidents and records backing up each and every fact or story particle in her book. And also answering the complaint from many rich Southerners that “for every one master like that one, there are a hundred good masters.”
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(Oops, I mean in the Xenogenesis trilogy…) She claimed, via the protagonist, sorry, not Olamina, from the Parable books, but from yet another extremely well portrayed female protagonist’s (Lilith?) discussion with one of the aliens who rescued Earth in order to combine themselves with Humanity to form a new species, basically that our hierarchical nature, and one other thing, I believe it was our propensity toward violence, were essentially a deadly combination for the survival of the human race. Well, if that is indeed the case, then how can people like Ryan Eisner in The Chalice and the Blade, if I recall correctly, and the other women who have been claiming that there was a type of societal situation in which a separate living (from men) women’s utopia existed on earth, about 20,000 years ago, before agriculture got to be large-scale and private property came into existence. If this was the case, then that would mean that women lived in harmony together with no hierarchy. But, this idea does not make sense if the human species from the time of either Homo Habilius or Homo Erectus, well before Homo sapiens, was always hierarchical. All of the great apes are, and so, it seems, are most mammals, in general. So if capitalism is based on large scale private property, and large scale property is based on hierarchy, which, in its turn, is based on power and dominance, then it seems that the instinct to dominate is the actual problem with human beings. If that is the case, then we are really dealing with the question of how to educate ourselves out of one of the most powerful instincts we have, no pun intended, and that leads to the question of whether we even have time to address the underlying issues around the consequences of that drive for power over one another, while simultaneously saving ourselves from extinction. Education over time could certainly do it, if we all bent our collective wills toward helping each other, but how do we do that? How can we make that happen?
While I have seen a few examples of CLTs, and seen them presented as a means of increasing renter-ownership, I have been wondering if they could also be part of a set of economic reforms that allow for building democracy through greater shared land ownership in common, and indeed, it seems that others also believe that 
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narration of Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl, which was long said to have been fiction before finally being accepted as truth. Professor Fegan yellin’s book is a superset of this particular book, as the original work itself along with Yellin’s commentaries and sources. Here is a new-ish look at that initial book by H. Jacobs, written by Prof. FaganYellin:
Horrifyingly enough, even I., our hero, himself, could also be treated as Fancies under the worst of circumstances.
Ann and Anna was so easy to write that I still keep asking myself what is so blooming difficult about this project, Who By Fire, whose suffering is not unlike that of Harriet Jacobs. Then, I keep remembering that I already knew everything about the Ann and Anna series, because I was using a historical personage with a recorded itinerary, and adding another main character whose voice I knew extraordinarily well, partly based on all of the Victorian era novels I read or listen to because they are available for free, now being in the Public Domain.
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