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![]() ![]() ![]() And though she is freeborn and class-privileged like her mother, Libertie’s dark(er) skin continues to constrain the freedom she has inherited as she must bear the weight of colorist impositions and imaginations. Sitting at the intersection of freedom struggle in the Americas, Libertie is born to a freewoman and a fugitive, defined on both sides of her family tree by the legacy of slavery near and far. “I saw my mother raise a man from the dead,” the book’s eponymous protagonist Libertie Sampson-a free Black girl living in the 1860s-remarks in the novel’s opening line. Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie begins with a resurrection. Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie (Photo credit: Syreeta McFadden) ![]()
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