The Garretts of Columbia
A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration
by David Nicholson
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Pub Date Jan 09 2024 | Archive Date Apr 30 2024
Description
A multigenerational story of hope and resilience, The Garretts of Columbia is an American history of Black struggle, sacrifice, and achievement.
At the heart of David Nicholson's beautifully written and carefully researched book, The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration, are his great-grandparents, Casper George Garrett and his wife, Anna Maria. Though Papa and Mama came of age in the bleak Jim Crow years after Reconstruction, they believed in the possibility of America. The Garretts embraced the hope of America and experienced the melancholy of a family separated by the search for opportunity and belonging. On the basis of decades of research and thousands of family letters—which include Mama's tart-tongued observations of friends and neighbors—The Garretts of Columbia is family history as American history, rich with pivotal events viewed through the lens of the Garretts's lives.
Advance Praise
“A remarkably detailed, incisive, and eloquent history . . . A triumph of research, reflection, and imagination conveyed in beautiful, accessible, well-organized prose.”—Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University, and author of Say It Loud: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
“A rigorously researched but also sensitively imagined story of one Black family’s exacting and yet triumphant rendezvous with history.”—Arnold Rampersad, professor emeritus, department of English, Stanford University, and author of Ralph Ellison: A Biography
“David Nicolson’s richly sourced, interestingly populated veil of color . . . may be one of the great deep reads of our time by this confessed ‘weary integrationist.’”—David Levering Lewis, professor of history, emeritus, NYU, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
“With a quiet dignity and resolve, David Nicholson evokes those of his own blood who went before him. . . . What he knows is that old, sad, shameful story: the saga of one more multigenerational Black family in America who tried so hard to love their own country, even as their own country refused to love them back.”—Paul Hendrickson, author of Sons of Mississippi: A Story or Race and Its Legacy, National Book Critics Circle Award winner
“Pride, shame, and curiosity create an open, revealing book. [Nicholson’s] skilled writing takes his people from slave trade to the Great Migration. Here’s a personal story that is his story—history.”—Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
“David Nicholson’s deep literary dive into his family’s history—against the mania of racism that haunts this nation—is poignant, powerful, and a true gift to readers.” —Wil Haygood, author of Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781643364544 |
| PRICE | $27.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 328 |
