Leslie Stainton

Gebundenes Buch

Scarlett

Slavery's Enduring Legacy in an American Family

Beschreibung

From a sixth-generation descendant of the enslaving Scarletts of Georgia, this searing account of one family’s complicity in slavery and its violent aftermath unravels the lies of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind and shows how slavery’s legacy persists today.  

Autor

Leslie Stainton has served on the board of directors of both the Slave Dwelling Project and Coming to the Table. She is a two-time Fulbright recipient and a former lecturer in creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan Residential College. Stainton is the author of Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts and Lorca: A Dream of Life and has published essays in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the American Scholar, and other publications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640126756
• ISBN-10: 1640126759
• Artikelnr.: 73603887