Libertie
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
"Her mother wants her to be a doctor. Libertie wants to know what freedom actually feels like."
In Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson — freeborn, dark-skinned, restless — is expected to follow her physician mother into medicine. But Libertie wants a freedom no one around her can define, and her search takes her from Kings County to Haiti. Luminous historical fiction about what liberty owes a Black woman.
Worth knowing
Inspired by the life of one of the first Black women doctors in the United States.
