β€œEvery scholar of pre-Civil War Black history confronts the problem of the archive. … Local, state, and federal archives hold only the scraps and shards of lives broken by design.”

Finally ending a ridiculous reading hiatus with: The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich πŸ“š

We can’t have live plants at work (no bugs in the archives!) so I crocheted one and now can’t stop. Having them on the window sill makes them just a bit more real.πŸͺ΄πŸ§Ά