Annotation
Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School and a professor of history at Rutgers University.
Awards
2008 National Book Awards
2009 Pulitzer Prize
2009 American Library Association Notable Books
2009 Frederick Douglass Prize
2008 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
2009 George Washington Book Prize
2008 New York Times Notable Books of the Year
| Genre | NonFiction Historical Sociological Biography |
| Topics | African American families African Americans Plantation life Plantation owners American history Black history Slaves Slavery U.S. presidents Family relationships |
| Setting | Virginia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Paris, France |