Having no memories of her deceased father, Libertie tries to construct a version of him based on her mother’s remembrances. Ben’s life comes to a tragic end, the young Libertie is haunted by his example, realizing that simply attaining freedom isn’t enough one has to know how to live freely. Ben attempts to settle into the community but struggles to connect with its members, and soon he is frequenting the back room of the local drinking establishment, pining for an enslaved woman named Daisy. Ben’s physical ailments, healing the emotional wounds of slavery proves much more difficult. Ben with an herbal remedy, awestruck by her mother’s healing powers.Īlthough Dr. In the novel’s first scene, Libertie watches her mother revive the unconscious Mr. Ben who has “stolen himself away” in a coffin as his means of getting North to freedom. Libertie is a young girl living with her mother, a trained physician, in a community of free Blacks in Brooklyn, and the man is an escaped slave she calls Mr. “I saw my mother raise a man from the dead,” Libertie Sampson tells us at the beginning of Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel.
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