Uncle George and Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery - Couverture souple

Sizemore, Bill

 
9781947860100: Uncle George and Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery

Synopsis

In Uncle George and Me, author Bill Sizemore tells the story of his slave-owning Virginia ancestors, their slaves, and those slaves' descendants--a story that lay buried by a century of denial and historical amnesia. Its threads run through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the struggle for civil rights, and the crippling legacy of slavery that still plagues the nation today. In microcosm, it is the story of Virginia and the South. In telling it, Sizemore hopes to advance an essential, if painful, national conversation about race.

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À propos de l?auteur

Bill Sizemore grew up in segregated small-town Virginia and spent forty-three years as a journalist, with most of that time spent at the Virginian-Pilot, the state's largest newspaper, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007. He wrote about topics as varied as state government and politics, televangelist Pat Robertson, the private military company Blackwater, and Virginia's prison-building boom. He has also written for The Associated Press, Ms. magazine, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Since his retirement in 2014, he has focused on his two highest priorities: playing with his grandchildren and writing books. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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9781958754153: Uncle George and Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1958754153 ISBN 13 :  9781958754153
Editeur : Brandylane Publishers, Inc., 2018
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