Chapters (44)
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- They are coming.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- Once, they stole away.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- Those who stayed behind found their own ways to resist.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- They remembered the feeling of their beloveds sold,
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- It took the babies drowning for the rest to say, Enough.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- Tools meant for work became seen as weapons.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- XXVIII.
- When they were caught, punishment was swift and severe in its execution.
- XXIX.
- Soon it would be morning, and those left behind would prepare for another day.
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also by LaTanya McQueen
- About the Publisher
LATANYA MCQUEEN has an MFA from Emerson College, a PhD from the University of Missouri, and was the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Coe College in Iowa.
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