A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the familys compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the familys dispersal after Jeffersons death in 1826. Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and a Professor of History in the. Gordon-Reed, author of a previous work on the Jefferson-Hemings relationship, is just the person to cut through the tangle. That slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Reworking the “Alamo” narrative, she shows that enslaved Blacks-in addition to Native Americans, Anglos, and Tejanos-formed the state’s makeup from the 1500s, well before Africans arrived in Jamestown. Gordon-Reed presents the saga of a frontier defined as much by the slave plantation owner as the mythic cowboy, rancher, or oilman.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed joins Greenlight (virtually!) to share her new book, On Juneteenth, a Texan’s view of the long, non-traditional road to a national recognition of the holiday. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)Īnnette Gordon-Reed presents On Juneteenth.
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