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Quick Mix is a section of Library Mix (<http://librarymix.com>) that contains short items and library- or book-related links. It is published several times a week.
Color Online is a Detroit nonprofit that operates a library, offers support to local girls and publishes a blog about women writers of color. Literature is its “hub” for positive social change. Take a look at the current article about Dolen Perkins-Valdez whose novel Wench focuses on a little-known aspect of nineteenth century American history concerning an Ohio resort that catered to slaveholders and their slave mistresses. Ohio was a free state where slavery was illegal. So Perkins-Valdez says one of her driving questions in writing the novel was whether it was “possible for a slaveowner to have a psychological hold over a slave strong enough to prevent that slave from escaping.” Click here to read more.
Tags: American history, Color Online, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, identity, slavery, Wench, women's history
