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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
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For two hundred nights, over twelve years, Joseph McGill has "slept rough" in former slave dwellings in twenty-five states, all for a great cause. This historian—and re-enactor—knows the power of "place" to make history real; his mission is to give witness, prompt meaningful conversation, to save an essential history of the nation. For readers who loved Clint Smith’s How the Word Is Passed or the travels of Tony Horwitz, Sleeping With the Ancestors should be your next read!
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep in former slave dwellings-revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America.
"Thought-provoking." -New York Times
Since founding the Slave Dwelling Project project in 2010, historic preservationist Joseph McGill Jr. has been touring the country, sleeping in places most Americans would never know existed. Sleeping with the Ancestors fo...
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