Tanya Mosley

Your book really does take us through history using, it's a history book, but in the best way. It's not a dense text, you know, think of like a history textbook. But this revisiting this time period, I mean, I was astounded to learn by 1775, South Carolina was exporting more than a million pounds of indigo annually. So it was like the colony's second most valuable export after rice.

Your book really does take us through history using, it's a history book, but in the best way. It's not a dense text, you know, think of like a history textbook. But this revisiting this time period, I mean, I was astounded to learn by 1775, South Carolina was exporting more than a million pounds of indigo annually. So it was like the colony's second most valuable export after rice.

Your book really does take us through history using, it's a history book, but in the best way. It's not a dense text, you know, think of like a history textbook. But this revisiting this time period, I mean, I was astounded to learn by 1775, South Carolina was exporting more than a million pounds of indigo annually. So it was like the colony's second most valuable export after rice.

And to your point, like when we learn about that history, the history of that time period, it's typically focused on those other exports like rice and cotton.

And to your point, like when we learn about that history, the history of that time period, it's typically focused on those other exports like rice and cotton.

And to your point, like when we learn about that history, the history of that time period, it's typically focused on those other exports like rice and cotton.

You meditate on that thinking about, I think in the book you mentioned cobalt.

You meditate on that thinking about, I think in the book you mentioned cobalt.

You meditate on that thinking about, I think in the book you mentioned cobalt.

You mentioned like what's used to create the technology that we use.

You mentioned like what's used to create the technology that we use.

You mentioned like what's used to create the technology that we use.

The labor.

The labor.

The labor.

One of the more powerful, perhaps also really painful things that you do is reflect on what our ancestors saw looking out into the deep blueness of the sea during the Middle Passage. I think we've heard these fables that speak to this, that many chose to end their lives by jumping overboard, maybe transfixed. These are stories that really change this idea of the

One of the more powerful, perhaps also really painful things that you do is reflect on what our ancestors saw looking out into the deep blueness of the sea during the Middle Passage. I think we've heard these fables that speak to this, that many chose to end their lives by jumping overboard, maybe transfixed. These are stories that really change this idea of the

One of the more powerful, perhaps also really painful things that you do is reflect on what our ancestors saw looking out into the deep blueness of the sea during the Middle Passage. I think we've heard these fables that speak to this, that many chose to end their lives by jumping overboard, maybe transfixed. These are stories that really change this idea of the

the horde nature of it, like transfixed by the blueness and possibility that the ocean gave, that maybe there was an underworld under the deep blue sea where our ancestors found liberation. What was this process like for you imagining what that deep blue sea offered to those during the Middle Passage?

the horde nature of it, like transfixed by the blueness and possibility that the ocean gave, that maybe there was an underworld under the deep blue sea where our ancestors found liberation. What was this process like for you imagining what that deep blue sea offered to those during the Middle Passage?