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The Meeting House

Marilyn Nelson

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This book of poetry recounts the untold stories of a church in Lyme, Connecticut, including its involvement with slavery and the displacement of Native Americans. It was praised for its courage in uncovering difficult historical truths.

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These are sounds the landscape has never heard. A strange human language, axes and saws, iron hammers pounding home iron nails, the tromp of boots, the cough of musket fire, and then on and on, like t...

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This book of poetry recounts the untold stories of a church in Lyme, Connecticut, including its involvement with slavery and the displacement of Native Americans. It was praised for its courage in uncovering difficult historical truths.

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These are sounds the landscape has never heard. A strange human language, axes and saws, iron hammers pounding home iron nails, the tromp of boots, the cough of musket fire, and then on and on, like this new experience for the land.

Lyme, Connecticut, 1729, two members in good standing of the church record and sign a business transaction. In consideration of the sum of 25 pounds, one mulatto girl of three years old called Jane to have and hold, possess and enjoy as his own proper estate forever during her natural life. Two members who have seats in the front pews.

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