Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery. Joseph McGill Jr., Herb Frazier, Joseph McGill Jr., Herb Frazier

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Joseph McGill Jr., Herb Frazier, Joseph McGill Jr., Herb Frazier
Page: 352
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ISBN: 9780306829666
Publisher: Hachette Books

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Notes From Your Bookseller For two hundred nights, over twelve years, Joseph McGill has "slept rough" in former slave dwellings in twenty-five states, all for a great cause. This historian—and re-enactor—knows the power of "place" to make history real; his mission is to give witness, prompt meaningful conversation, to save an essential history of the nation. For readers who loved Clint Smith’s How the Word Is Passed or the travels of Tony Horwitz, Sleeping With the Ancestors should be your next read! In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America.Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed in 1999. Since founding the project, McGill has been touring the country, spending the night in former slave dwellings—throughout the South, but also the North and the West, where people are often surprised to learn that such structures exist. Events and gatherings are arranged around these overnight stays, and it provides a unique way to understand the often otherwise obscured and distorted history of slavery. The project has inspired difficult conversations about race in communities from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Minnesota to New York, and all over the United States. Sleeping with the Ancestors focuses on all of the key sites McGill has visited in his ongoing project and digs deeper into the actual history of each location, using McGill’s own experience and conversations with the community to enhance those original stories. Altogether, McGill and coauthor Herb Frazier give readers an important unexpected emersion into the history of slavery, and especially the obscured and ignored aspects of that history.

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