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Growing Up with the Country, Kendra Field. Signed by the author! - MV
- Item Number
- 122
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
Item Description
MSOG, Inc. Annual Meeting and Program participants in 2016 had the honor of listening to Kendra Field share insights from her research while creating Growing Up with the Country, Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War. We eagerly awaited the release of this work in early 2018! It’s now part of our 2018 Auction and it is signed by the author! A wonderful example of past quality programming available through MSOG, Inc.
Please visit: https://www.kendrafield.com to read the overwhelming praise for this book by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and many others.
“The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants.”
“Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements.
When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field’s beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.”
Excerpt from www.kendrafield.com (check it out!)
Book available on Amazon.com:
Item Special Note
Donated by Kendra Field and secured by Margaret Fortier to benefit the Merrimack Valley Chapter.
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Donated By:
Kendra Field
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