{"title":"Books by Annette Gordon–reed","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781598537345","title":"Black Writers of the Founding Era (LOA #366)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA radical new vision of the nation's founding era and a major act of historical recovery  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity of Black experience in the turbulent decades of the American Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack Writers of the Founding Era \u003c\/b\u003eis the most comprehensive anthology ever published of Black writing from the turbulent decades surrounding the birth of the United States. An unprecedented archive of historical sources––including more than 200 poems, letters, sermons, newspaper advertisements, slave narratives, testimonies of faith and religious conversion, criminal confessions, court transcripts, travel accounts, private journals, wills, petitions for freedom, even dreams, by over 100 authors––it is a collection that reveals the surprising richness and diversity of Black experience in the new nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are writers both enslaved and free, loyalist and patriot, female and male, northern and southern; soldiers, seamen, and veterans; painters, poets, accountants, orators, scientists, community organizers, preachers, restaurateurs and cooks, hairdressers, criminals, carpenters, and many more. Along with long-famous works like \u003cb\u003ePhillis Wheatley’s poems\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Banneker’s astonishing mathematical and scientific puzzles\u003c\/b\u003e are dozens of first-person narratives offering little-known Black perspectives on the events of the times, like the Boston Massacre and the death of George Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom their bold and eloquent contributions to public debates about the meanings of the revolution and the values of the new nation–– writings that dramatize the many ways in which protest, activism, and community organizing have been integral to the Black American experience from the beginning––to their intimate thoughts preserved in private diaries and letters, some unseen to the present day, the words of the many writers gathered here will indelibly alter our understandings of American history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed and an introduction by James G. 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Through the lens of colonial Virginia, American Slavery, American Freedom is the classic examination of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. In her illuminating new introduction, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annette Gordon-Reed (The Hemingses of Monticello; On Juneteenth) introduces a new generation of readers to Edmund S. Morgan’s classic text, reminding us that without a full reckoning of the connection between freedom and slavery, America will stall on the road to racial justice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297571385717,"sku":"9781324105206","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324105206.jpg?v=1791212830"},{"product_id":"9780691122069","title":"Jefferson on Race – A Reader","description":"From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should readAmong America’s Founding Fathers, none was more deeply, personally, or controversially entangled with race and slavery than Thomas Jefferson. The man whose Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “all men are created equal” enslaved more than 600 people of African descent even as he acknowledged the injustice of slavery, saw himself as its opponent, and condemned it in his writings. How is this possible? In Jefferson on Race, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed gathers Jefferson’s most revealing writings about African Americans, slavery, and Native Americans, enabling readers as never before to directly explore his complex and contradictory thoughts, feelings, and decisions on these subjects—the most hotly debated aspect of his legacy.   These selections come from Jefferson’s public and private writings, letters, and plantation records, as well as accounts by contemporaries, including his son Madison Hemings and three other people formerly enslaved at Monticello. The book documents Jefferson’s ideas about—and self-image in relation to—African Americans, slavery, and Native Americans, as well as his conduct, including interactions with individual Black and Native people. The writings show how Jefferson responded to living in a multiracial slave society while professing progressive ideals, and how his views on race and slavery were shaped by his experiences with enslaved Black people.   Jefferson on Race is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Jefferson’s conflicted attitudes—and the impact of race and slavery on American history.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420505190773,"sku":"9780691122069","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691122069_4bc9a3af-e15f-4d48-8799-ff11b5db803d.jpg?v=1786014596"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-annette-gordon-reed.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}