My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War

Time Period
1825 to 1860
1861 to 1876
1877 to 1924
1925 to Today
Media Type
Video
Topics
Black History
Presenter
Lawrence Jackson

On January 31, 2013, Lawrence Jackson delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War."

Part history and part detective story, My Father's Name is a moving narrative full of the mixture of anguish and fulfillment that accompanies any search into the history of slavery. In this intimate study of a black Virginia family and neighborhood, Lawrence Jackson vividly reconstructs moments in the lives of his father's grandfather, Edward Jackson, and great-grandfather, Granville Hundley. In the process the author brings to life stories of the people of Pittsylvania County during and immediately after slavery.

Lawrence Jackson teaches in the English department at Emory University.

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