Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and nations.
Annette Gordon-Reed writes about Black origin stories in America from Texas to Florida to Virginia. The Atlantic, 4 May, 2021
This short piece covers a lot of ground, from Spanish America a century before Jamestown and Plymouth, to Florida and St. Augustine, where enslaved people were offered freedom if they escaped the British and converted to Catholicism, to the transposition of Black speech in Early America into racist vernacular in manuscripts. William Jennings Bryan makes a cameo.
Annette Gordon-Reed’s publications are listed at her Harvard Law School page.
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