Growing Up with the Country Presented by Busboys and Poets Books
Date and Time
Jan 4, 2018 5:30 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Jan 4, 2018 5:30 pm
450K
Please join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome author Kendra Field to discuss her new book Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War.
Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements. When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field’s beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.
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