I read this book for the tours I created while I was running my walking DC cooperation tour guiding company, SHIRtours, in DC, in 2012. The well-known work of Elizabeth Keckley is mentioned first, after a brief biography of how Lincoln’s dress maker came to DC with her son in early 1860, quickly became Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker and confidant before a misunderstanding over Keckley’s book (Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years as a Slave and Four Years in the White House). Reed Miller goes on to mention Margaret Mohammit Hagen, who established dressmaking shops in DC in the late 1800s, and apparently had an interest in medical electricity, and died in New Jersey in the middle of the next century, but is buried in Baltimore. The Black Fashion Museum also figures prominently in this book, described as having opened in 1979 in Harlem, and then moved to DC in the early 1990s. It apparently stood at the site of what the author described as having been successively, the site of an Underground Railroad station, then the location of the Ladies Relief Association, at some point also the Sojourner Truth Home for Girls. She also cites Lois Alexander’s 1982 work Blacks in the History of Fashion. While the editing left a good bit to be desired, there was interesting information to be gleaned from this work, and it continued to raise awareness of Black women hidden behind the scenes of history…
…Later in the week we visited A. in the outskirts of Susiya. Settlers of Sussya settlement and its satellites have now been harassing A. and his aging parents daily (I wrote about him in past reports). Last Saturday, February 3, 2024, wildcat settler “road work” began, paving a track through his own farmland, the same land the settlers have prevented him from tending since the outbreak of the current war. They just brought a bulldozer and began carving the land. They work at night. As usual, there is no justice. No one to turn to. We sat in the morning sun with A. and his father, next to what would be a house when A. would be able to afford completing its construction. We saw the injustice with our own eyes.
So much sadness was in their eyes, and no rage. I heard myself telling A. what I had already said in Taban this week, and for the second time this week I was asked why I said this. I told A. the Taban story and gave him the same poem, printed out.
When he was done reading, he said: “We don’t think about revenge. We think about ways to stay on our land. We would gladly live in peace with our neighbors. But they do not want this…”
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