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Today, the names of all but three of these women are lost.

In Mend: Poems, Kwoya Fagin Maples gives voice to the enslaved women named in Sims's autobiography: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy.

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This is a powerful book that illuminates one more complex, disturbing chapter of the African-American experience, a nineteenth-century white male physician's gynecological experiments on female slaves. MEND is a brutal story, lyrically told in the voices of three of those women, and its author has memorably created both a painful reminder and a beautiful tribute."" - Kim Addonizio, author of Mortal Trash: Poems and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within

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      Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
      Publication Date: 11/16/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813176277, 978-0813176277
      ISBN10: 0813176271

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Today, the names of all but three of these women are lost.

      In Mend: Poems, Kwoya Fagin Maples gives voice to the enslaved women named in Sims's autobiography: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy.

      Trade Review
      This is a powerful book that illuminates one more complex, disturbing chapter of the African-American experience, a nineteenth-century white male physician's gynecological experiments on female slaves. MEND is a brutal story, lyrically told in the voices of three of those women, and its author has memorably created both a painful reminder and a beautiful tribute."" - Kim Addonizio, author of Mortal Trash: Poems and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within

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