[Fredslist] Gotham Book Club 2/26 (slavery in NY)

[Fred Klein]

Have you seen 12 Years A Slave?  It well might win the Academy Award for Best Picture of the most disturbing kind. Equally disturbing was an article in yesterday's Times: When Slavery and Its Foes Thrived on Brooklyn (Weekend Arts II, C31) from which I learned that before the Revolution Brooklyn had more slaves than any American city other than Charleston, S.C. and in 1790 a third of Brooklyn's population was black and nearly all those were enslaved. There is more.

That takes us to our Book Club selection about a 300 year Shelter Island Plantation. Please see the details below and join us in reading the book and discussion with the author. Thanks.

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From: Fred Klein <FKlein at kleinzelman.com<mailto:FKlein at kleinzelman.com>>
Date: January 12, 2014, 3:17:04 PM EST
To: Fred Klein <FKlein at kleinzelman.com<mailto:FKlein at kleinzelman.com>>
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Subject: Book Club 2/26

The Gotham Book Club, founded by Julie Klein and Co Chaired with her by John Buscarello, next meets on line on 2/26 at 1:00 pm.

For those of you who are not familiar with our bookclub Julie manages to find world-class authors who are willing to discuss their books with us in real time on the Gotham website. Past bookclub discussions can be found on the website under bookclub.

The upcoming selection is entitled "The Manor: three centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island". The author is Mac Griswold.

A summary of her book from the author's web site follows: The Manor is a biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories Bright and  sinister – and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a New England slave plantation 3 1/2 centuries ago. It is a historical narrative that tells the story of slavery, emancipation,
racism,
prejudice and silent prejudice in New England through a single piece of land".

If you've seen the Academy award nominated "12 years A slave" you will understand the incredible irony of a plantation being so close to home.

Please go to the website and click on bookclub and enter a comment criticism or question. I know you won't be sorry.  make sure you join us on the 26th and happy reading!
rom
my iPhone Fred

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