Refugeed

Poetry collection by Reginald Flood.  “Reginald Flood’s lucid poems liberate the voices of a little-known population—slaves who were ‘refugeed,’ smuggled away from advancing Union Armies during the Civil War to preserve slavery’s rule. Braced with historical documentation from WPA interviews, we delve across generations of American history’s whip-torn surface to explore the soul of what it means to be free. Flood has written a necessary and poignant remembrance.”   --Tyehimba Jess, author of Leadbelly and Olio, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry “Blending historical scholarship on slavery with rhythmic cadence and imagistic precision of poetry, Reginald Flood's Refugeed is a masterful performance of black cultural memory.” --Tony Bolden, Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies and author of Afro Blue Improvisations of African American Poetry and Culture and a collection of essays The Funk Aesthetic in African American Poetry. Black Music, Black Poetry: Genre, Performanc