![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During the conversation, she toys with addressing his fictional allegiance, which he performs against the backdrop of a doomed antislavery revolt. In Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the site of a failed insurrection led by the abolitionist John Brown, Perry encounters a Civil War re-enactor who belongs to a Confederate regiment. But it’s the images of individuals and fleeting encounters that make the historian’s lessons linger in the mind. Later, when movement was limited, she found that she could pull on memories from a lifetime of traveling around the South to enrich her accounts.Īs the book opens in the Upper South - where the nation’s founding and its dissolution during the days of the Confederacy loom large - the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the region is on display. Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, spent five years visiting the locations from the Upper South to the Caribbean that are highlighted in the chapters of “South to America.” Until the pandemic hit, she was often driving from place to place. It’s an invitation to consider that, maybe, the frameworks, or even the battles that we’re having over the frameworks, are not sufficient.” "South to America." HarperCollins Publishers “I’m not telling people the whole history of the South. So the choices are always political,” Perry told NBC News. ![]()
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