... Relates Mariah Grant’s personal history and some of her personality traits. This chapter helps explain the origins of the mystic and healing traditions in the family, and draws parallels between Grandma Rye and Rosemarie’s own mother, Mama Freeney. Through Grandma Rye’s story, the chapter also...

... Poem about Rosemarie’s great-grandmother (Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye, an ex-slave) and the rituals and prayers she created for healing. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers ...

... Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers ...

... Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye Leesburg Georgia fishing African spirituality ...

... Bob Moses Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) slavery torture ritual cleansing ...

... Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) slavery ritual cleansing prayers Prathia Hall freedom movement ...

... These are notes for a story about a woman who brought captured runaway slaves to her house, tortured them, and then resold them. Years later, after the house is burned down, Grandma Rye comes and puts the tormented spirits there to rest. Bob Moses Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) slavery...

... Asserts that the Africans who were enslaved on American soil (Grandma Rye and others) put their breath and blood and prayers into the land in the South when they arrived, as a kind of medicine against the terrors they sensed were coming to them and their children. She says that the blessings...

... Ella Lee Harris Freeney (Mama Freeney) Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) Mennonite House the Veterans of Hope Project Bernice Johnson Reagon Ruby Sales Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons ...

...Ground Poem about Rosemarie’s great-grandmother (Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye, an ex-slave) and the rituals and prayers she created for healing. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers Relates Mariah Grant’s personal history and some of her personality traits. This chapter helps...

... includes reflections on stories from Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ruby Sales, and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons about their experiences in the freedom movement. Ella Lee Harris Freeney (Mama Freeney) Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) Mennonite House the Veterans of Hope Project Bernice Johnson Reagon Ruby Sales...

... (Grandma Rye and others) put their breath and blood and prayers into the land in the South when they arrived, as a kind of medicine against the terrors they sensed were coming to them and their children. She says that the blessings they put into the soil are what have given every generation since...

... includes reflections on stories from Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ruby Sales, and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons about their experiences in the freedom movement. Ella Lee Harris Freeney (Mama Freeney) Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) Mennonite House the Veterans of Hope Project Bernice Johnson Reagon Ruby Sales...