Slate Hill - 1949: My Five Year Old Memories Of My Family And Slate Hill, A Community In Roanoke, VA

This book is about an American family in 1949, who had a different cultural experience because of the color of their skin. A five-year-old girl grew up in an extended family that included an ancestor who had experienced slavery and another ancestor who spoke a native African/Australian language that was unrecognizable by European Americans.

She was the product of two great grandmothers who had sons murdered, one in a situation comparable to a lynching and the other one in an unresolved murde...