Himes: A Biography and The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics.
Lawrence Jackson is the author of the award-winning books Chester B. Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, she lives in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. 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.Ī 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.Īnnette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. 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. ON JUNETEENTH takes us beyond the stories of Gordon-Reed’s childhood, providing a Texan’s view of the long, non-traditional road to a national recognition of the holiday. In ON JUNETEENTH, Gordon-Reed combines her own scholarship with a personal and intimate reflection of an overlooked holiday that has suddenly taken on new significance in a post-George Floyd world.Īs Gordon-Reed writes, “It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.” Yet, Texas-the last state to free its slaves-has long acknowledged the moment on June 19, 1865, when US Major General Gordon Granger proclaimed from his headquarters in Galveston that slavery was no longer the law of the land. Lewis Museum.Īnnette Gordon-Reed is in conversation with Lawrence Jackson about her new book, On Juneteenth.
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