The Slaves Have Names

The Slaves Have Names
Authors
Cumbo-Floyd, Andi
Publisher
Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Tags
history , biography
ISBN
9781733771320
Date
2013-11-28T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.28 MB
Lang
en
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They lived with professors and waited on former presidents. They were masons and nurses, school teachers and field hands, 246 people owned by a man who struggled with the institution of slavery. Yet, almost no one knows their names.

When a white woman begins to study the history of the plantations these people built, the plantations where she was raised, she discovers that the silence around these people's lives speaks of a silence in her country's history . . . and in her own life.

A story of American slavery and the its legacy in the United States.