Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle - Hardcover

Midlo Hall, Gwendolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1642594105 ISBN 13: 9781642594102

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2021

Synopsis

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical history.
Born in 1929 New Orleans to left-wing Jewish parents, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's life has spanned nearly a century of engagement in anti-racist, internationalist political activism. In this moving and instructive chronicle of her remarkable life, Midlo Hall recounts her experiences as an anti-racist activist, a Communist Party militant, and a scholar of slavery in the Americas, as well as the wife and collaborator of the renowned African-American author and Communist leader Harry Haywood. Telling the story of her life against the backdrop of the important political and social developments of the 20th century, Midlo Hall offers new insights about a critical period in the history of labor and civil rights movements in the United States.
Detailing everything from Midlo Hall's co-founding of the only inter-racial youth organization in the South when she was 16-years-old, to her pioneering work establishing digital slave databases, to her own struggles against cruel and pervasive sexism, Haunted by Slavery is a gripping account of a life defined by profound dedication to a cause.

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About the Authors

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is the award-winning author of many articles and multiple books, including Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century and Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links, as well as the editor of A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood. Midlo Hall is Professor Emerita of Latin American and Caribbean History at Rutgers University. She is a lifelong political activist and spent fifteen years researching and creating the Louisiana Slave Database, now accessible as part of Slave Biographies: Atlantic Database Network. She was the wife and collaborator of Communist organizer and writer Harry Haywood.

Pero G. Dagbovie is University Distinguished Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Graduate School at Michigan State University. He is the Editor of the Journal of African American History and the author of numerous books, including Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the Twenty-First Century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642594105
• ISBN 13: 9781642594102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250