Briefly Noted

Faculty/Emeriti

Former Bennett Fellow

Alumni/ae

1932—George P. Brockway. The End of Economic Man: An Introduction to Humanistic Economics. (W.W. Norton & Co., 2001) [fourth edition]

1935—Alden L. Todd. Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition, 1881-1884. (University of Alaska Press, 2001) [second edition, with a new foreword by Terrence Cole]
1937—Julian C. Smith and others. Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering. (McGraw Hill, 2001) [revised, updated 6th edition]

1943—Gore Vidal. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000. (Doubleday, 2001)

1944—George Plimpton, Editor. Home Run. (Harcourt, 2001)

1945—Dean K. Boorman. The History of Colt Firearms. (The Lyons Press, 2001)

The History of Winchester Firearms. (The Lyons Press, 2001)

1950—George L. Dyer Jr. 40 Poems For T (PressTIGE Communications, 2001)

1955—Peter Sears. The Brink: Poems. (Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2001)
1956—Philip D. Harvey. The Government vs. Erotica: The Siege of Adam & Eve. (Prometheus Books, 2001)

1957—Carl E. Pickhardt. The Trout King: A Novel. (Bonneville Books, 2001)

1959—Hayford Peirce. The Burr in the Garden of Eden. (Wildside Press, 2001)

Chap Foey Rider: Capitalist to the Stars.(Wildside Press, 2000)

Jonathan White, Stockbroker in Orbit (Wildside Press, 2001)

Napoleon Disentimed. (Wildside Press, revised, 2000)

Trouble in Tahiti: The Gauguin Murders. (Wildside Press, 2001)

1961—John Irving. The Fourth Hand. (Random House, 2001)

1968—Geoffrey Biddle, Editor. Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? (Random House, 2001)

1972—Peter S. Silin. Nursing Homes: The Family's Journey. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

1978—Warren Allmon. Rock of Ages, Sands of Time. Paintings by Barbara Page, Text by Warren Allmon. (University of Chicago Press, 2001).

1983—Ellie M. Hisama. Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Briefly Noted

1947—Jeffrey O'Connell and Richard F. Bland. "Moynihan's Legacy" In The Public Interest (Number 142, Winter 2001).

and Richard F. Bland. "Pat's for Pat." [Review of Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life. Edited by Robert B. Katzmann.] In University of Illinois Law Review. (v. 2000, no.4)

1967—Michael Burwell. "Winter Light" [poem] In Ice-Floe: International Poetry of the Far North. (v. 1, no. 2, Winter Solstice 2000)

1990—Christina K. Ullrich and others. "HIV-1 gp120- and gp160-induced apoptosis in cultured endothelial cells is mediated by caspases." In BLOOD, 15 August, 2000 (v. 96, no. 4)

1991—Joseph P. Reid. "Rodrique v. Rodrique: Another Copyright and Community Property Case Worth-y of Comment." In Notre Dame Law Review (v. 75, no. 3, March 2001)

"Content and Broadband and Service... Oh My! Will a United AOL-Time Warner Become the Wicked Witch of the Web, or Pave a Yellow Brick Road?" In Journal of Legislation (v. 26, no. 2, 2000)

Faculty/Emeriti

Aldo Baggia.—"In the Footsteps of the Young Johann Sebastian Bach." In The Diapason (July 2001)

Dolores Kendrick.—[conversation with] In Soul Talk: New Spirituality of African-American Women, by Akasha Gloria Hill.
(Inner Traditions, 2001)

"GraceGranny to the Hog" [a poem] In Washington Review
(v. 26, no. 6, April/May 2001)

Former Bennett Fellow

A. Manette Ansay.—Limbo.
(Morrow, 2001)

Alumni/ae are urged to advise the Exonians in Review editor of their own publications, recordings, films, etc., in any field, and those of classmates. Whenever possible, authors and composers are encouraged to send one copy of their books and original copies of articles to Edouard Desrochers '45 (Hon.), the Editor of Exonians in Review, PEA, 20 Main Street, Exeter, NH 03833. Alumni/ae interested in reviewing works by fellow Exonians are also encouraged to contact the editor at the same address, or by email at edesrochers@exeter.edu.

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Although the subtitle is Journey of a Slave Girl, the narrative follows the lives of three women. It is the story of Louisa, a 14-year-old slave who joins the ill-fated passengers on the Pearl; of Genevieve, her mother, born of a white master and a slave woman he loved and freed; and of Abigail, Louisa's friend and the daughter of the editor of an abolitionist publication. Sawyer uses each of these women to introduce the young adult readers for whom the book is written to two distinct, but less familiar, urban settings, as well as to philosophical divisions within the abolitionist movement.

In her latest book for young adults, Kem Knapp Sawyer '71 tells the story of a 14-year-old slave girl's bold escape to freedom.

Washington, D.C., in the mid-1850s was a tangle of moral and legal contradictions. When the captains of the Pearl were captured and charged with stealing and transporting slaves, they were indicted under a 1737 Maryland statute because the city was governed in part by Maryland laws. But because the crime was committed in a federal district, their crimes could be pardoned (and were) by the president. These legal proceedings are covered in some detail in the story—and justly so—as the trial became a focal point for antislavery agitation. It is also the arena in which Abigail begins her journey to adulthood. Secretly she attends the trial in support of the captains, men whose radical methods her more moderate father condemns. Abigail struggles with this betrayal of her parents' trust, but ultimately acts independently on abolitionist principles of her own.

Louisa—like Abigail, but at significantly greater personal risk—begins her journey to adulthood by making a decision of her own: she decides to make the run for freedom on board the Pearl, even though it means leaving her family behind. She makes a second bold escape attempt when the passengers on the Pearl are captured and jailed, in anticipation of being returned to slavery. From that moment on Louisa makes decisions that eventually will lead her to London, where, at the conclusion of the story, she is living as a free person. Like her mother before her, Louisa is separate from the lot of plantation slaves. She is literate, familiar with the ways of white urban society and, of necessity, allowed greater freedom of movement. She uses all of these means, as many other runaway slaves did, to find her way out of slavery.

Genevieve's story, set in early 19th-century New Orleans, may be more difficult for young readers to understand. It involves a sexual relationship between a master and slave, driven by love but prohibited from legal marriage. But Genevieve's narrative, like that of Louisa and Abigail, opens doors for young readers to see the world as a complex place. It allows for discussion about choices people make and the boundaries that limit those choices. This and many other episodes encourage readers to seek out other sources to more fully understand what happened and why.

Freedom Calls is good social history and a good story for kids growing up. Sawyer—whose previous books include Lucretia Mott: Friend of Justice, The Underground Railroad in American History and Refugees: Seeking a Safe Haven—is to be commended for tackling so much and for leaving the reader with the desire to learn more.

— Marcia Carlisle

Marcia Carlisle has been a member of the Exeter history department since 1989, and is one of the founders of the Exeter Humanities Institute.