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My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Confronts Her Roots by Thulani Davis

sandyd's review

4.0

Really interesting memoir by an African-American author about her family during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Sometimes the parts about different battles got tedious, but the people involved made the narrative pick up again. The interracial relationships were fascinating, and Davis' speculations about her great-grandmother (a former slave), her great-grandfather (scion of a plantation owning family), and her grandmother were intriguing.