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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s
On Juneteenth
provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. All too aware of
the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed—herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas as early as the 1820s—forges a new and profoundly truthful narrative
of her home state, with implications for us all.
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Detroit Public Library Author Series presents Annette Gordon-Reed in conversation with historian Jamon Jordan. Annette Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, a history of the African
American family whose close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson had been redacted from history. . Her other books include Race on Trial: Law ...
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