The Price For Their Pound of Flesh: The value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation by Daina Ramey Berry was on a list of anti-racist books (Dr. Clint Smith on Pod Save The People) so I picked it up and decided to give it a listen.
Started: 6/13/2020
Completed: 7/25/2020
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: An anti-racist book list
Review:
So just right off the bat--this book is a hard read. It is emotional. It is direct. This is no dry reading of statistics. It is a story of people's lives decimated by involuntary human slavery (the practice of human chattel--in which there is systemic treatment of human beings as though they were property).
The chilling horror of slavery--the practice of buying and selling people--is reduced to its capitalistic horror. This book puts your face into slavery and rubs it around. Beware.
