Title: no light and little substance
Review: This book is a major disappointment. It begins with a story about Harriet Tubman and then leaves the reader to wonder what has happened. The rest of the book is filled with anecdotes from various sources and refutes the contention that this is one of the first books written about the role of Black women during the slavery period..The book's weakest point comes when she states that "both the black female slave and the planter's wife were equally oppressed because they knew little of birth control" this is feminist wishful thinking at its best..Another reviewer wrote that "white males and their heterosexual patriarchy are to blame for the maltreatment of slave women in the south" I would urge her and other's to read what many Southern women thought about their slaves. It is not the Pollyanna world of Sistahood between slaves and their white female owner's that the author tries to portray..A cute book at best.......
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