How author Dionne Ford found healing in the story of her enslaved ancestors
Episode 8 min 53s

How author Dionne Ford found healing in the story of her enslaved ancestors

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Dionne Ford about her new book, Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing. In it, Ford grapples with an old family photograph showing her great-great-grandmother, Tempy Burton, who was enslaved by Colonel W.R. Stuart, her great-great grandfather.

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