Professor Emerita Merideth Taylor Publishes Book

Professor Emerita Merideth Taylor has authored a new book, "Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance" (New Village Press, 2024). The book's publicist describes the novel as a "richly imagined, illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland." The publicist adds that "the photographs and stories in this book grew out of the author's quest to understand how these people, who were subjected to a system that made every attempt to brutalize and dehumanize them, were able. not only to survive but to build families and meaningful lives." Taylor is professor emerita of theater and dance and was a founding member of the African and African Diaspora and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs. She is author of "Listening in: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland's Mother County"; co-editor of "In Relentless Pursuit of an Education: African American Stories from a Century of Segregation"; and screenwriter/director of the documentaries "With All Deliberate Speed: One High School's Story" and the Telly Award-winning "Talking and Walking Common Ground." Taylor has committed to donate all author royalties for "Making a Way Out of No Way" to the Historic Sotterley Descendants' Project.