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Blog: Gretchen Craig Topics:fiction, writers, novels
Monthly Archives: February 2015
MAROONS: The runaway slaves who stayed put.
I’ve been reading about the maroons, the escaped slaves who didn’t try to go all the way north to a free state. Instead, they either fled into the countryside and formed their own little colony, or they hovered around the … Continue reading
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LYNCHINGS: Another humbling history lesson
I recently read an article about ISIS and the beheadings and their burning of the Jordanian pilot. Then I read something about the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese in World War II. I thought how savage and brutal – … Continue reading
Reconstruction, so much better and so much worse than I knew.
To honor Black History Month: I have now read two books about reconstruction (A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner, and The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era, by Michael A. Ross), … Continue reading
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Tagged Black History Month, blacks and police, Civil Rights, Ferguson, freed slaves, racism, Reconstruction
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A White Woman Writing Black History
A reader has asked me by what lights should I, a white woman, be writing about Afro-Americans, slavery in particular. Once I get all of the flip answers out of my system, what it comes down to is that people … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Black History, Civil Rights, empathy, Historical Fiction, injustice, Martin Luther King Jr., slavery, writers
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