marginalia no. 17

Rebellion by fire, words of fire, and setting fire to our fears

Books:

• Albert Thrasher, “On to New Orleans”: Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt (A. Thrasher, 1996). (Direct link to purchase)

• Toni Morrison, What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2008).

• Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Random House Publishing Group, 2021).

Header Image: Silent protest parade in New York City on July 28, 1917, three weeks after the East St. Louis riots.Underwood & Underwood, N.Y./Library of Congress