Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Ford Dionne
One woman's reckoning with the life of her great-grandmother, born to a cotton broker and an enslaved woman; the echoes this legacy finds throughout her family history and in her own experience of…
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One woman's reckoning with the life of her great-grandmother, born to a cotton broker and an enslaved woman; the echoes this legacy finds throughout her family history and in her own experience of sexual abuse; and her tireless efforts to reclaim her own body in the face of intergenerational racial trauma.One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift, is among them.What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take and how to root it out of the body? In Go Back and Get It, Ford's debut memoir, she