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Johnson skillfully employs a multitude of Southern and Northern accents and inflections for the host of characters who were important in her time, including W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Theodore Roosevelt, and Susan B. Anthony.-- AudioFile Absorbing. -- New Yorker Allyson Johnson...skillfully employs a multitude of Southern and Northern accents and inflections for the host of characters who were important in her time...Johnson captures her passion in sharp tones that shift to a somewhat ponderous intonation for letters and articles. Note: This work faithfully reproduces the racist language and attitudes of its setting. -- AudioFile Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America whose shadows still haunt us today. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times bestselling author If you combine the pleasures of a seductive novel, discovering a real American heroine, and learning the multiracial history of this country that wasn't in our textbooks, you will have an idea of the great gift that Adele Logan Alexander has given us in Princess of the Hither Isles. By writing about her own grandmother, she helps us discover our own country. -- Gloria Steinem, New York Times bestselling author

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Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing at age twelve as coanchor of Bubble Gum Digest, for which she won an Emmy. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she became a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. Johnson has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series. Adele Logan Alexander taught for many years at George Washington University. She is the author of Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879, Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846--1926, and Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South.

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