بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Ma Beautiful and Beloved Asiatic Aboriginal Black Bebies!!!

So, I came in the library yesterday and they recently re-opened The Black History Section and so they are featuring books by and about Black people and I happened upon this book about Sister Harriet.

But, I’m not big on biographies, so I looked first at the references and sources for the biography and learned that there was a woman who had actually interviewed our Dear Courageous Sister and compiled THREE biographies based on stories told her directly from the mouth of Sister Harriet.

So, you know I had to look for it online

And I just finished the first one.

It verified a lot of stories and quotes I had heard about but it was enlightening to hear the tales direct from Sister Harriet.

She was funny too.

She told the story of how she just happened to arrive on the day before her father was scheduled to go on trial for aiding a fugitive slave and in her words she, “saved dem de expense ob de trial” LOL

It was also fascinating to learn about her years working during the Civil War.

I didn’t know that much about that portion of her life.

It also put great emphasis on her unwavering love for Black People.

Which made me feel really special because my Grandfather nicknamed me
“Grandma Moses” when I was still a child.

And I think my love for Black People and Allah (God)
Is just as strong or stronger than Sister Harriet’s.

Al Hamdulillah!

She was still living when the book was written.

(Yes, that’s $40,000.00.)
(The equivalent of $1,091,200.00 today)

The end was a little monotonous with the author going on and on about how wicked Southern devil women were compared to Northern devil women.

Now, I’ve read slave narratives wherein they verified that the slave missus was always harder on them than the slavemaster but that was the case whether the fugitive was from the North OR the South and to intimate that the Southern woman was any more wicked than their Sisters up North is preposterous.

She (the biographer) was just trying to make herself feel better.

We know that they are ALL DEVILS.

So, I basically skimmed through that part.

Now, I’m going to look for the Second one.

So, if you’ve finished Message To The Blackman in America….

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bradford/bradford.html