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Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History

Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History
Author: Rashauna Johnson
Price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1009668366
ISBN-13: 9781009668361
Edition: -1
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Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: Lifetime

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In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her hand-sewn Mardi Gras memorial suit more than a century later, this history is one of triumphs and trauma, illustrating the ways people of African descent have created sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance. Johnson uses her grandmother's birthplace in East Feliciana as a prism to illuminate foundational, if fraught, aspects of US history including colonialism, slavery, war, citizenship, and unfinished freedom. The result is a portrait of the world in a family, a family in a region, and a region in the world that insists on the bristling and complicated relationships of people to place and creates a new understanding of what it means to be American.