Remembering Slavery

<p><strong>The groundbreaking bestselling history of slavery with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed </strong></p>



<p><strong> As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produced in this country. -<em>The Boston Globe</em></strong></p>



<p><br></p><p>With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination—and conscience—once again.</p><p><br></p><p>No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of <i>Remembering Slavery</i> their memories were recorded on paper and in some cases on primitive recording devices by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event <i>Remembering Slavery</i> captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time presenting them as an unprecedented first-person history of slavery in America.</p><p><br></p><p><i>Remembering Slavery</i> received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television including <i>Good Morning America Nightline CBS Sunday Morning</i> and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) and “something truly truly new” (<i>The Village Voice</i>).</p><p><br></p><p>With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed this new edition of <i>Remembering Slavery</i> is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.</p>