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Remembering Slavery - 2nd Edition by Ira Berlin & Marc Favreau & Steven F Miller (Paperback)

Remembering Slavery - 2nd Edition by  Ira Berlin & Marc Favreau & Steven F Miller (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed </strong></p> <p><strong> "As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produced in this country." --<em>The Boston Globe</em></strong></p> <p>With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination--and conscience--once again.</p> <p>No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of <em>Remembering Slavery</em> over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, <em>Remembering Slavery</em> captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America.</p> <p><em>Remembering Slavery</em> received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature--nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including <em>Good Morning America</em>, <em>Nightline</em>, <em>CBS Sunday Morning</em>, and CNN. Reviewers called the book "chilling . . . [and] riveting" (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>) and "something, truly, truly new" (<em>The Village Voice</em>).</p> <p>With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of <em>Remembering Slavery</em> is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.</p> <p>With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination--and conscience--once again.</p> <p>No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of <em>Remembering Slavery</em> over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, <em>Remembering Slavery</em> captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America.</p> <p><em>Remembering Slavery</em> received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature--nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including <em>Good Morning America</em>, <em>Nightline</em>, <em>CBS Sunday Morning</em>, and CNN. Reviewers called the book "chilling . . . [and] riveting" (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>) and "something, truly, truly new" (<em>The Village Voice</em>).</p> <p>With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of <em>Remembering Slavery</em> is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><strong>Praise for <em>Remembering Slavery</em>: </strong><br /> <br /> "Gripping and poignant. . . . Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature."<br />--<strong><em>The Washington Post Book World</em></strong><br /> <br /> "Ira Berlin's fifty-page introduction is as good a synthesis of current scholarship as one will find, with fresh insights for any reader."<br />--<strong><em>The San Diego Union-Tribune</em> </strong><br /> <br /> "Invaluable."<br />--<strong><em>Chicago Tribune</em> </strong><br /> <br /> "Chilling [and] riveting. . . . This project will enrich every American home and classroom."<br />--<strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br /> <br /> "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature."<br />--<strong><em>The Washington Post</em> </strong><br /> <br /> "Quite literally, history comes alive in this unparalleled work."<br />--<strong><em>Library Journal</em></strong><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><strong>Marc Favreau</strong> is the editorial director of The New Press. He is the editor of <em>A People's History of World War II: The World's Most Destructive Conflict, as Told by the People Who Lived Through It</em>. He lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. <p/>Until his death in 2018, <strong>Ira Berlin</strong> was one of the preeminent historians of American slavery. He was the author of <em>Many Thousands Gone</em>, <em>Generations of Captivity</em>, and <em>Slaves Without Masters</em>. He co-edited <em>Families and Freedom</em> (with Leslie S. Rowland) and <em>Slavery in New York</em> (with Leslie M. Harris). His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, among many other awards.</p> <p/><strong>Steven F. Miller</strong> is a co-editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and a co-editor (with Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland) of <em>Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War</em>.

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