Uncle George and Me - by Bill Sizemore (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Inspired by the discovery that one of his ancestors owned slaves, retired journalist and newspaper editor Bill Sizemore researches and shares the history of the American struggle over slavery and racial discrimination, and the story of the members of the African-American family, past and present, who share his name.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <em>Uncle George and Me, </em>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"In <em>Uncle George and Me</em>, Bill Sizemore has focused his well-honed investigative skills on his own family--and those of the slaves they once owned. The result is a compelling, honest, and sometimes heartbreaking narrative that illuminates the fraught and fragile ties that yoke those on both sides of America's founding racial divide."</p><p> Margaret Edds, author of <em>We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and</em> <em>the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow</em></p><p>"Bill Sizemore brings a keen mind, an eloquent pen and a gentle but courageous heart to this painful, clear-eyed tale of his family's--and our nation's--shameful past."</p><p> Karen Branan, author of <em>The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia</em></p><br>
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