A review by samarakroeger
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Tiya Miles impresses again!

I honestly didn’t know anything about this topic (feels like an oversight of the American educational system) — I think it’s important to know that slavery and slave trading was happening in the north, that Native Americans were also enslaved, that it isn’t properly acknowledged or remembered even in Detroit.