Threads to which I Belong eBook Linda Reaves
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It begins on the road leading to the Reaves and McDonald slave plantations. In the sizzling, sweltering milieu of the rocky hills of northeastern Mississippi, a forbidden love between a Negro man and a White woman created more havoc than the widespread Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. The anti-miscegenation laws of Mississippi prohibited a Negro man and a White woman, or a White man and a Negro woman from occupying the same room without being fined up to $500, put in jail, or murdered. Despite these major concerns, this forbidden love steered the couple into the bonds of matrimony, but not without a struggle, which ultimately would lead to a legacy of activism. Eliza Jane McDonald, matriarch of the family, well-known activist and devout Christian, would protest against the harsh anti-miscegenation laws of Mississippi, leaving citizens stunned. In March of 1888, along the beautiful waterfront at Lake Reaves, Eliza Jane McDonald and Levi William Reaves were married. This marital event, known as The Wedding that Changed the South or The Greatest Ancestral Wedding of 1888 resulted in more kinfolk coming together for an event than the whole town of Ashland could tally. In 1929, Eliza Jane McDonald-Reaves died. She left a manuscript underneath the feather tick mattress of her bed, which consisted of many years of her writings. More than 80 years later, Linda Reaves sensed that her ancestors were calling. She felt a sudden impulse to return to her birthplace, to address the mystery of uninterrupted dreams and the suspense of her loved ones unexpected deaths catalysts that forced her to examine the manuscript that was taken from underneath the mattress of her grandmother s bed. Excerpts from that manuscript serve as an introduction to the book, Threads to Which I Belong.
Threads to which I Belong eBook Linda Reaves
Precious, priceless & perfectly told! I read my copy & purchased another for my mom. Ms Reaves brings you into the lives of her family during a time of history that her people suffered deeply. Yet it's not the suffering that you remember but the love strength & perseverance. The questions that Ms Reaves leaves her readers with at the end of her book make you ponder & seek to know your family past history & respect their perseverance.Product details
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Threads to which I Belong eBook Linda Reaves Reviews
This detailed story of a family's love and genealogy is both heart breaking and stunning in its glory. Linda Reaves truly wrote her heart out. Read this book, you will be touched.
Treat yourself to this....my good friend Linda Darlene Reaves wrote this inspirational piece. I remember listening to her often times when the voices of her ancestors were poking and prodding and pushing her to investigate her family history. Pushed her down to Lake Reaves and the families LAND and all the treasures that would be revealed there. This work may push you towards your elders so that you might know the richness of your own family history. Great work from a truly talented author who has a wonderful way of threading words together.
A beautiful account of a fascinating story that takes you away to another time and place with a matriarch insightful beyond her time. I would actually just love to know more about the people involved, their experiences, and to delve deeper into the rich fabric of the lives Linda Reaves has opened us up to.
Threads to Which I Belong is a book that captivated my soul. As I read through the pages of history, I found myself traveling back in time. I stood invisible in Mississippi watching a family’s history unfold. As I turned the pages, my emotions changed constantly. Emotions of anger, disgust, sorrow, and happiness buried me. The author has written an outstanding piece of work that forces you to contemplate researching your own family history.
This book seems like it's just the beginning! As I read the book, it felt like I was actually there listening to every word spoken by each ancestor. Linda wrote this book as if she were living and witnessing each generation. Even at her book signing, the words she spoke felt like her grandmother speaking through her. Get your copy and don't just read it... feel it.
As in Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Claude McKay's "My Mother," Linda Reaves’ Threads to Which I Belong crosses into that deeply spiritual place where blood and soil become inseparable within the bonds of love and family. Linda Reaves’ voice as an author is remarkably strong. I am reminded of the time travel in Octavia Butler’s Kindred when I consider the portrayal of Eliza Jane within the story and then the “revealing” of Linda Reaves herself in the epilogue. It is as if Eliza Jane and the author live simultaneously, which is intriguing. I only wish the book were two hundred pages longer. Reaves may have to write a sequel to satisfy her readers whose appetites-- I am certain-- she has whet. Long live Eliza Jane along with the entire McDonald-Reaves family!
I was expecting it to give more family information but other then that it was good
Precious, priceless & perfectly told! I read my copy & purchased another for my mom. Ms Reaves brings you into the lives of her family during a time of history that her people suffered deeply. Yet it's not the suffering that you remember but the love strength & perseverance. The questions that Ms Reaves leaves her readers with at the end of her book make you ponder & seek to know your family past history & respect their perseverance.
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