This Week: Slavery and Out From It
February 21st, 2008
We talk with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina about MR. AND MRS. PRINCE: How An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend.
Also, we talk with Anne Farrow, Joel Lang and Jennifer Frank, authors of COMPLICITY: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery.
Then we hear an excerpt from a longer archived interview with writer Patricia Klindienst, author of THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America. She tells us about about the traditional gardens brought by African slaves whose descendants became the Gullah people of the South Carolina Sea Islands.
Finally, award-winning poet Lynn Thompson reads “Grenadine”, a poem about her West Indian ancestors from BEG NO PARDON.
First airs on 91.1FM WMUA -Amherst, Friday, 2/22, at 4:30PM.
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