Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
Dionne Ford
Bold Type Books
Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is author Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift. What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take?
In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us.