Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston

9 reviews

kwilson2512's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Racism, and Slavery

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective

4.0

Zero sugarcoating history, just the way I like it. ZNH's conversation with Kossolo is set in a way that lets him tell his story in all its entirety, dialect and all. The narration for the audiobook felt like I was talking to him directly. It was rough to get through a lot of parts because of the themes but that is the nature of the entire story. Discomfort ought to be expected, and it is important for readers to deal with the discomfort. A definite recommend for anyone looking to pick up an important non-fiction for Black History Month.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Child death, Violence, and Grief

tinyflame4's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Violence, Colonisation, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping, Animal death, and Racism

pinkalpaca's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Death, Child death, Genocide, Murder, Slavery, Racism, Police brutality, Confinement, and Grief

seph268's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Trafficking, Gore, Grief, and Slavery

crazytourists_books's review

dark informative sad medium-paced

3.0

Is it the content I expected? No. 
Is this an extremely important book for the African-American history? Yes.
Did I struggle to read it? Yes. 
Did my heart ache for this man (and  the thousands of others, men, women, children, like him)? Of course. 
Did I like it? Unfortunately not.
Would I recommend it? Yes, it's historical, and/or laographical value is huge. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Slavery, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, and Violence

lindsayerin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Slavery, Child death, Death, Grief, and Trafficking

julied's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Slavery

muchadoaboutliz's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Death, Child death, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Murder, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Cursing, and Bullying