Description:
From a sixth-generation descendant of the enslaving Scarletts of Georgia, this searing account of one family's complicity in slavery and its violent aftermath unravels the lies of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and shows how slavery's legacy persists today.
Review Quotes: "Beautiful, elegiac, and urgent, Scarlett resonates with tidal force. Leslie Stainton takes us on a search for the truth about her enslaving Georgia ancestors, the Scarletts, and through a reckoning with the myths and distortions of their painful history, from Gone with the Wind to today. In her family as in the American nation, the truth about slavery and segregation lay buried under denial, delusion, and pride. Pulling us all into its depths, this is a memoir that manages to be both bracingly honest and profoundly hopeful."--William G. Thomas III, author of A Question Of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War