From place to place
I’ve just finished (well, all but a few pages) the underground railroad book. What a read, I don’t want it to end. Well, I do because I think it ends at the Civil War, but I’d love it if it was twice the size, with more stories of the various escapes and the workings of the abolitionists, both black and white.
Some of the stories are amazing. The people are amazing. I’ll be writing about them in one way or another this month and probably beyond. There is a lot of material and my hope is that writing it out will help to settle it in my mind, particularly since there are other books to get through. I still don’t have the sense that I need of knowing, of being able to walk the paths that my ancestors walked, or to even envision what the paths looked like. So, more to go. More to read.
Actually, I think maybe I am going about this all wrong. Well, not *all* wrong, but wrong enough. I have a few books on slavery and such checked out at the moment, some of them I’ve even renewed – after three weeks already of not reading them. One, Blassingame’s “The Slave Community” I rushed through this weekend – interrupting my reading of Bound for Canaan -because someone had it on request so I couldn’t renew it, but reading at that speed doesn’t allow for reflection and greater absorbsion. I do recall most of it, but it feels incomplete so I may have to check it out again in a few weeks.
Anyway, instead of just reading one right after another, probably it would be best to just read one, absorb it, write about it, look up related things and get to know *that* topic well, before moving on to the next. It might help me also imagine and write out or plot out scenes or chapters and such, too, so that I keep the book writing goal in mind.
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