About is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a the book really began with a conversation in a taxicab about 10 years ago when my friend tosha treadway who some people think of as poet laureate of the us but at the time was not yet. We knew each other through the poetry world and 10 years ago we were at a professional conference and not tosha and i are old friends but she on this one night decided to challenge me because i grew up in Forsyth County georgia which is known all over the state as a quote, white county but this is not something i knew in new york, had any familiarity with but natosha is an africanamerican woman who happened to go to the university of Georgia College a little way down the road from bursae and this meant when she heard me offhandedly mentioned that i came from this state , she stopped and really turned to me and sai
Database, up came a list of headlines that sure enough toll of an 18yearold woman who was raped and killed if the banks of the chattahoochee river, allegedly by three black men. Her name was made crow. Theres a photograph of her around 1912. 1912. She lived very near where my parents house was in a little town called osterville, a little village. This is me playing with dee, i was graduate work at nyu and the 17th century bubonic plague outbreaks. I was bored and tired of writing my dissertation, and so i was playing hooky but it will launch a city at this computer terminal that all of this information a lot of things are coming online. It was about 2005 piccolo things are coming online for the first time in archives like the Atlanta History Center libraries were scanned all this information and digitizing it. Along with that was newspapers. The store at always imagined as murky and unknowable and lost in time so they start to come into view. I clicked a link to lead to an old issue of
Night riders, torchwielding, mounted ku klux klaners. All my life id wondered if the whole thing was a racist fantasy, just something kids like to talk about in the backseat of the bus. But when i typed it into a newspaper database, up came a list of headlines that, sure enough, told of an 18yearold woman who was raped and killed near the banks of the chattahoochee river allegedly by three black men, and her name was may crow. Theres a photograph of her around 1912, and she lived near where my parents house was in a town called oscarville. A little village. This was me playing hooky. I was doing graduate work at nyu on the 17th century bubonic plague outbreaks [laughter] and it was really me, i was bored and tired of writing my dissertation, so i was playing hooky, but i realized i was sitting at this computer terminal that had a lot of information, and a lot of things were coming online. It was about 2005, and a lot of things were coming online for the first time, and archives were sc
Live in 18 old woman who was raped and killed allegedly by three black men in her name was mae crow. And she was very near where my parents house was. And then this is me just really playing hooky. On the 17th century and is really me. I was bored and tired of writing my dissertation. I was sitting at the terminal that have all of this information a lot of things are coming online. They were coming online for the first time. Archives like the atlanta history center. They were skating all of this information. So along with that. To see murky and unknowable. It suddenly started to come into view. This is the picture that came up. This is from october 2, 1912 i did note didnt know at the time these people are. J daniel her brother oscar daniel, this is ed collins who is 24. This is ernest knox. The two boys here they would eventually be hanged for their murder. It was something i couldnt escape. I knew that it raised more questions than it answered. If two of those faces belonged to the t
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