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    Almost, Free

    By Laura Morgan Roberts

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    A timeless collection of lyrical expressions and photographs that capture humanity's dance with freedom. Through the voices of anonymous freedom fighters, award-winning author Laura Morgan Roberts authentically portrays praying, hoping, weeping, persisting, mourning, overcoming and accomplishing, all while birthing future generations who draw ev

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Alignment Quest Enterprise
    Release dateSep 15, 2022
    ISBN9798986968001
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      Almost, Free - Laura Morgan Roberts

      ALMOST, FREE

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      LAURA MORGAN ROBERTS, PH.D.

      The Alignment Quest Enterprise, LLC

      Washington D.C.

      Copyright 2022 by Laura Morgan Roberts 

      All rights reserved.

      Published in the United States by The Alignment Quest Enterprise, LLC

      ISBN-13: 978-0-578-29933-4 (paperback)

      ISBN-13: 979-8-9869680-0-1 (e-book)

      www.lauramorganroberts.com

      DEDICATION

      I dedicate this collection of lyrical expressions to my Ancestors.

      I lift up, with gratitude, my great-grandmother Ethel Gamma Jones Murray and her foreparents, who labored without proper recognition, respect, or renumeration at the University of Virginia.

      CONTENTS

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      Prologue

      What’s Your Why?

      Almost, Free

      A Full Circle Prayer

      How Mommies are Made

      Enough

      Daybreak

      Dusk

      Speakeasy

      Tired

      This Land is Our Land

      The Experiment

      Tools

      Fade to Black

      Me, Too

      Birthdays

      Time Stamp

      When Black Lives Mattered

      Missing

      Loud and Clear

      Dreams

      Promises/Pro-Misses

      We Shall Overcome

      Reverse: From 911 to 119

      Dawn

      Equality

      About This Collection

      PROLOGUE

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      I believe my Ancestors beckoned me to return home to the University of Virginia, not once, but twice.

      I independently chose to attend the University of Virginia for my undergraduate college degree, without prompting from my family. Interestingly, we did not know much about our family history at UVA when I was an undergraduate student.

      At the time, we knew that Gamma’s grandmother had been a cook or something at UVA, but we didn’t realize that Gamma was born in Charlottesville, and we also didn’t have a name in our family tree to align with the archives of enslaved and free laborers at UVA.

      I became more curious about my lineage when the UVA Presidential Commission was formed, while my mother was researching our family tree.

      When my Ancestors beckoned me to return to UVA as a faculty member, the University was in the midst of constructing a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. The campus tour, including the famous Rotunda, now featured acknowledgements of the enslaved laborers’ contributions, their living quarters, and the harsh conditions under which they labored. It became even more important to me to check the names on our Charlottesville family tree against the PCOS’s records, and we were able to find one name, Reuben Barber/Barbour, a free man of color, and possibly his mother-in-law Priscilla, an enslaved laborer.

      Reuben’s first wife, Evaline, died (and we don’t know much more about her),

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