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The Women of Plums captures the voices of several slave women, their stories their ideas and their feelings. It really brings the overall lives of slave women to life. There are stories of love, sadness, pain, happiness, triumph, failure and so much more. As each woman tells a story of herself, someone else or of someone lost the reader is transformed into her time and place. I have read stories of slave women before, and they have been fairly generalized. Simple women who worked hard, were serious, and took care of children. I think this is one of the few books I have read where the slave woman actually speaks. These women are anything but simple. They demonstrate friendship, intelligence and at times even silliness. I read through each poem, not necessarily thorough enough, but the first line that really caught me in this collection of poems was in Prunella’s Picninc. “We’s sisters