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Suggested Readings:
Coleman, Bernadene H. Mama Rose Los Angeles: Milligan Books, 1998. Print
Mama Rose is the story of this young couple's courage in the face of storms, floods, crop failure, the untimely death of a son, and even government deceit. This novel depicts the human condition against the backdrop of The Reconstruction and Economic Depression after the Civil War. This uncommon and tender love story details how love, endurance, strength and hard work triumphs over hate. This book is recommended as suggested reading do to the Ford's family original
settlement in Bossier parish and the african american descendents who are tied to the NW LA region. You can visit Mamarose website at www.mamarose.com and the book can be purchased from amazon.com.
Galland, China.
Love Cemetery. New York: HarperOne, 2008. Print
"Galland chronicles the restoration and reconsecration of an African-American cemetery in her East Texas childhood hometown in this inspirational first-person account. The author, who is white, uncovers a fragment of local history in the process of her participation in an interracial group of people who from 2003 to 2006 convened a series of "work parties" at the cemetery—hacking at weeds, repairing gravestones and making offerings to the ancestors. Galland reports the meetings, church services and potluck suppers she joins in around the communal cleanup of Love Cemetery, which may date back to the 1830s. She portrays the Boy Scout troop, various clergy, parishioners and the community elders ("keepers of the group memory") involved in the effort, with especially nuanced portraits of two African-American women, Doris Vittatoe (a direct descendant of a man buried there) and Nuthel Britton (the unofficial cemetery caretaker). Galland (The Bond Between Women, 1998), who leads spiritual retreats, was acutely aware of "the dissonance between the black and white experience of life in America," but comes to her own "understanding that enormous change happens through tiny choices."" This book is recommended because of Love's cemetery proximation to the LA/TX border and the discovery that some of the individuals buried within that cemetery migrated from African American families in the NW LA region. The book can be purchased from independent book sellers located at http://www.indiebound.org/indie-bookstore-finder or through amazon.com.
The authors have constructed 16 volumes of slave records abstracted from deed books from various counties and parishes located in the Ark-La-Tex region. These abstracted records include Emancipations, "Free Papers" or Affadavits of Character, Deeds, Bills of Sale, Power of Attorney, Schedules of Seperate Property, Pre-Marital Agreements, Bonds, Wills and other Gifts of Slave Property. For the purpose of this project, volume I- Bossier parish and volume III- Caddo parish were referenced. Books can be purchased directly from the authors at www.slaves.8m.com.
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