Juretta:  I understand completely.  Adele Logan Alexander's book is priceless.  And by the way my mom's (Jimmie Tabor-Steele)senior high school graduation dinner was held on the grounds of the Hairston family homplace in rural Davie County,NC. She went on to graduate from Livingstone College and was a teacher for some thirty years as well as the co-owner of Steele's Exxon which started out as a small grocery store that was started by my dad AR Steele and his dad Forrest M. Steele.  My grandfather was a retired teacher of a one room school in rural Davie County,NC. Jane.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Nov 3, 2008 8:08 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [VA-HIST] Apologetic clarification Re: The last word?  Gordon Wood on Gordon-Reed
>
>A moment ago I characterized Annette Gordon-Reed's new book as "the  
>first biography of an entire slave family," adding that "if another  
>exists, I do not know of it."
>
>What I ought to have said instead is that Gordon-Reed's work is to my  
>knowledge the first biography of a slave family that focuses entirely  
>on their life under slavery.  Others have written fine works on slave  
>families that continue as studies of those families after slavery  
>ended.  Among them is Henry Wiencek, who is kind enough to contribute  
>to this list from time to time, in his fine The Hairstons: An American  
>Family in Black and White.   One thinks also of Adele Logan  
>Alexander's wonderful work tracing her family's complicated  
>multiracial history across several generations.
>
>Apologies for a misstatement that may have provoked misunderstanding.
>
>-- Jurretta Heckscher
>
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