| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) |
| Contents |
President in the family / by Shannon Lanier -- So many names / by A.B. Westrick -- The will, the woman, and the archive / by Catherine Sasanov -- Overcoming amnesia: how I learned the forgotten history of two families -- Linked by slavery / by Bill Sizemore -- Oregon's slave history / by R. Gregory Nokes -- Seed of the fancy maid / by Rodney Williams -- State line / by Antoinette Broussard -- The plantation cake / by Leslie Stainton -- Am I black / by Eileen Jackson -- The immeasurable distance between us / by Thomas Norman DeWolf -- Making connections / by Karen Branan -- A millennial facing the legacies of slavery / by Fabrice Guerrier -- Standing on the shoulders of my ancestors / by Tammarrah Lee -- So close and so far away / by Elisa D. Pearmain -- Born both innocent and accountable: a moral reckoning / by Debian Marty -- The Terretts of Oakland Plantation: an essay of atonement / by David Terrett Beumée -- Not a wound too deep / by Karen Stewart-Ross -- To see / by Sara Jenkins -- Digging up the woodpile / by Sharon Leslie Morgan -- On being involved / by Stephanie Harp -- Changing the narrative / by Joseph McGill -- Tangled vines: a bloodline shaped by slavery / by Grant Hayter-Menzies -- A dream deferred along Holman's Creek / by Sarah Kohrs -- The tale of two sisters / by Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby |
| Summary |
"Slavery's Descendants brings together twenty-five contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, to tell their personal stories of exhuming and exorcising America's racist past. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery and reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Race identity.
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Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects
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Racism -- United States -- History
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Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
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Slaveholders -- United States -- History
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African American families.
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African Americans -- Biography
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White people -- United States -- Biography
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Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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African American families
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Race identity
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Race relations
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Racism
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Slaveholders
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Slavery -- Psychological aspects
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
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White people
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ford, Dionne, 1969- editor.
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Strauss, Jill, 1965- editor.
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Truscott, Lucian K., 1947- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781978800809 |
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1978800800 |
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9781978800786 |
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1978800789 |
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