Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by McGill, Joseph
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by McGill, Joseph

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

An account of one man's years sleeping overnight in the oft-overlooked slave dwellings across the United States...
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Author: Joseph McGill
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Language: English
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by McGill, Joseph

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

$64.75
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by McGill, Joseph

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

$64.75
Author: Joseph McGill
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
An account of one man's years sleeping overnight in the oft-overlooked slave dwellings across the United States and how he has used the experiences to shed light on larger issues of race and history in America.

Joseph McGill, a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and developed from 1999. Ever since, he's been touring the country, spending the night in former slave dwellings - throughout the South, but also the North and the West, where former slave dwellings also exist. Events and gatherings are arranged around these overnight stays, and it provides a unique way to understand the often otherwise obscured and distorted history of slavery. It has inspired difficult conversations about race in communities from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Minnesota to Oregon, and all over the US map.

Sleeping with the Ancestors focuses on all of the key sites McGill has visited over the past two decades and digs deeper into the actual history of each, using McGill's own experience to enhance those original stories. Altogether, it gives a broader look at the history of slavery, and especially the unexpected, obscured, and ignored aspects of that history.

Author: Joseph McGill, Herb Frazier
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780306829666


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2023 pg. 16
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