Status Updates From Stayed on Freedom's Call: C...

The National Theater's #spotters were no more than a holdover from #slavery, when #passing for white facilitated #escape, as Willow must learn in Ann and Anna, part 17 of my current Historical Fiction serial.

I still can't reset the Read This Book link to the full ebook of the English version rather than the Spanish summary that I accidentally set it to!!!

Will be finishing this soon, looking at ways history, narrative, and fiction all fit in to Project Do Better.

I'm nearly finished my second read of this book, and it seems a good support for the Do Better Project, as DC always has been a pilot city for many projects that later went nationwide.

Now that I have decided not to update this particular book, stayed on freedom's call, with a second edition, how do I hand off my current nonfiction project to the community as my contribution to society when the Do Better project has no community?

Somehow my two books, stayed and shared, have become one book on Goodreads. Why??

Now I see, from Ann & Anna, how story moves people much more than the dry facts, even if the facts are maybe a little more actionable?

Why is creating a protagonist from this information so difficult, when writing it up academically was much easier? I guess I was more detached? My stomach is in constant knots putting this information into a real person. Especially looking at the fancy maids trade.

The old slave pens, or slave gaols, under what is now roughly the Smithsonian air and space museum, would be a good setting for a short story perhaps, similar to Ann and Anna, on the ShiraDest blog.

A better title makes a difference. This book needs a title showing the larger application of the work beyond DC.

Definitely need to emphasize the benefits to communities of time banks, rather than how they work.

Definitely too much about time banks without context for the cooperation between these two communities, and how time banking may have helped facilitate more of that cooperation.

Tie in more stories of people, as suggested by Dr. G.
Jewish shop keeper in SC working with enslaved ppl "working out" and saving for their freedom as my ancestress did? Hard to find documents... https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Givens-667

Ought to discuss the importance of story and ritual in both cultures more...

Adulthood rites of passage also parallel??

I seem to have missed several small press nonfiction publishers...

I #amEditing the sequel to this book, it occurs to me, since Baby Acres/ Floors flows from the concerns discussed in this book. A Kindness Dream with a 70 year pathway built on prior cooperation.

#TeenCourt Must remember to find the reference page for the DC Youth Court started by Dr. Edgar Cahn

I hope that this online edition is easier to find, on the Archive.

#cooperation is more common than we think...

Wondering if an update is worth the time away from my Baby Acres/Floors WiP...

I finally thought to list the electronic version from The Archive here on Goodreads, as I hadn't realized that the ebook button was going to the Spanish summary of this book. Working my way through this edition each week on Thursdays to see if an updated publication is worth it.

Review needed to decide whether to update/publish new edition.

I was afraid to discuss racism in the first edition, but it must go in the update.

Need new review opinions...

To update or not to update...