Massive trigger/content warning for violence and rape for this book. Some really brutal scenes depicting the treatment of black women and men, but I think it's important to read this if you can stomach it.

The book was really informative, but it read more like a timeline about the treatment of black women from slavery til the 70s and their role in emancipation and organising against racist laws (maybe this is my bad for different expectations). I think the relationship between women, race and class could have been synthesized better. I also was expecting an explicit chapter on the analysis of this relationship. Although I managed to piece how these three factors are related, and developed a deeper understanding and appreciation for intersectionality in feminism as well as the class-struggle, I think a few more paragraphs to drive home the necessity of solidarity (especially in the last few chapters) would have been brilliant. I think the last few chapters were a bit clumsy and I was struggling to follow some points. Other than that it's an all-round must read book to familiarise people with the history of slavery and racism in the US, and from the perspective of black women, whose experiences are often underrepresented.