Slavery's descendants : shared legacies of race and reconciliation / edited by Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss ; foreword by Lucian K. Truscott IV.
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TextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 262 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781978800809
- 1978800800
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Racism -- United States -- History
- United States -- Race relations
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
- Slaveholders -- United States -- History
- African American families
- African Americans -- Biography
- White people -- United States -- Biography
- Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- United States
- Noirs américains -- Identité ethnique
- Esclavage -- États-Unis -- Aspect psychologique
- Racisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales
- Esclaves -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Propriétaires d'esclaves -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Familles noires américaines
- Noirs américains -- Biographies
- Réconciliation -- Aspect social -- États-Unis
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- African American families
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Race relations
- Racism
- Slaveholders
- Slavery -- Psychological aspects
- Slaves -- Social conditions
- White people
- United States
- 305.800973 23
- E185.625 .S58 2019eb
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"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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650