What is it about?
The effort here is to remember the dignity and the economy of a woman whose toil, like many others of her generation, wrought an enduring wisdom.
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Why is it important?
This essay represents the work of memory. For African Americans, memory works against the cultural amnesia insisted upon by the trauma of centuries of enslavement.
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This page is a summary of: Empty Vessel (In Three Pieces), New Writing, May 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2015.1037310.
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