Becoming White: My Family’s Experience as Slave Holders—and Why It Still Matters - Softcover

Blackburn, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 143892416X ISBN 13: 9781438924168

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2009

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BECOMING WHITE: My Family's Experience as Slave Holders--and Why It Still Matters follows the travels of three of my ancestral families as they came from the Old World to the new American colonies. In this lively history you will follow these families from Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland to their new homes in the colonies--and most important, see where and when they first came into contact with enslaved Africans, and how they became slave holders themselves. Although the book presents my own families' histories, it is really a parable for everyone's family history. Whether we came here long ago or last year; whether we are of European, African, Hispanic, Asian or Native American heritage, we have all been affected by the experience of being enslaved or of holding slaves. The thesis of the book is that the experience of holding other people as slaves was the origin of racism in the United States, and that that particular kind of racism has affected all of us--and even affects people who have never lived here.

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• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 143892416X
• ISBN 13: 9781438924168
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276