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The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical history. Born in 1929 New Orleans to left-wing Jewish parents, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's life has spanned nearly a century of engagement in anti-racist, internationalist political activism. In this moving and instructive chronicle of her remarkable life, Midlo Hall recounts her experiences as an anti-racist activist, a Communist Party militant, and a scholar of slavery in the Americas, as well as the wife and collaborator of the renowned African-American author and Communist leader Harry Haywood. Telling the story of her life against the backdrop of the important political and social developments of the 20th century, Midlo Hall offers new insights about a critical period in the history of labor and civil rights movements in the United States. is a gripping account of a life defined by profound dedication to a cause.

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After reading Haunted by Slavery, it has become even more clear to me that [Midlo Hall] explicitly embodies what longtime executive editor of Ebony magazine and popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. often referred to as 'living history' in reference to those freedom fighters in black history who shared their life stories and varied experiences with upcoming generations. [Midlo] Hall is a quintessential witness-participant of close to a century of American life and history. -Pero G. Dagbovie, from the Foreword

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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is Professor Emerita of Latin American and Caribbean History at Rutgers University. Born in 1929, Midlo Hall is a lifelong civil rights and Black Power essayist and activist, multi-award-winning historian, digital humanities pioneer, and outstanding public intellectual still writing indispensable works as she reaches her ninety-second year.

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