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Title Slavery's descendants : shared legacies of race and reconciliation / edited by Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss ; foreword by Lucian K. Truscott IV.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 262 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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.
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Subject African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Slavery.
United States.
Psychological aspects.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Racism.
History.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons.
Social conditions.
Slaveholders -- United States -- History.
Slaveholders.
African American families.
African American families.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
White people -- United States -- Biography.
White people.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Reconciliation.
Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Subject Racism.
Added Author Ford, Dionne, 1969- editor.
Strauss, Jill, 1965- editor.
Truscott, Lucian K., 1947- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Slavery's descendants. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019] 9781978800762 (DLC) 2018046485 (OCoLC)1055262647
ISBN 9781978800809 (electronic book)
1978800800 (electronic book)
9781978800762
1978800762