Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
By Lauret Savoy.
Description
Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward herpaths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this landlie largely eroded and lost.In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent an...
ISBN(s)
1619025736, 9781619025738
