A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing. That slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. Reworking the “Alamo” narrative, she shows that enslaved Blacks-in addition to Native Americans, Anglos, and Tejanos-formed the state’s makeup from the 1500s, well before Africans arrived in Jamestown. Gordon-Reed presents the saga of a frontier defined as much by the slave plantation owner as the mythic cowboy, rancher, or oilman. This epic work tells the story of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to the third president of America had been systematically expunged from history until very recently.Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemingses from their origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the familys.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed joins Greenlight (virtually!) to share her new book, On Juneteenth, a Texan’s view of the long, non-traditional road to a national recognition of the holiday. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)Īnnette Gordon-Reed presents On Juneteenth.
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