Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
by
Mark Auslander
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past? Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, The Accidental Slaveowner traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about...