Avidly Reads Passages Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black ; Biography & Autobiography | Women ; Biography & Autobiography | Lawyers & Judges first published in 1986

first published in 1986

When the village you call home exists alongside the most dangerous dungeon in the land

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1945855215

and free people of color acted more as colonists or settlers than as plantation slaves

Ethiopian Jews were attributed with dishonorable status because of their perceived dissociation from the land

Avidly Reads Passages Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black ; Biography & Autobiography | Women ; Biography & Autobiography | Lawyers & Judges first published in 1986"What is the value of Black life in America?"In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travelthe slave ship, train, automobile, and busto map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American travel narrative by telling an urgent story about how history shapes what moves us, as well as what prevents so many Black Americans from moving or being moved.