TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Tracy K.
TI  - To free the captives: a plea for the American soul 
SN  - 9780593534762
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Smith, Tracy K.
KW  - African American women authors
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - United States
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso; Train of souls -- The free and the freed -- One more sunny day - Scenes from a marriage, or: What is the American imagination -- Sobriety -- The Northern Territory -- Coda: Up ahead
N2  - "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--; Smith begins in Sunflower, Alabama, where her grandfather returned after World War I with a hero's record but difficult prospects as a Black man. She consider the life of her father through the lens of history, then bears witness to the terms of freedom afforded her as Black woman, mother, and educator in the twenty-first century. Her book provides a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions: Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been? -- adapted from jacket
ER  -