{"product_id":"scarlett-slaverys-enduring-legacy-in-an-american-family-hardcover","title":"Scarlett: Slavery's Enduring Legacy in an American Family - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeslie Stainton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sixth-generation descendant of the Scarlett family of Georgia, Leslie Stainton grew up hearing about her heroic ancestors and their tragic plunge from wealth to poverty in the wake of the Civil War--and about the Scarlett O'Hara of novel and movie fame who made their name known. But when Stainton set out to learn the truth about her enslaving forebears, she discovered the lurid facts behind \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e's Lost Cause fantasy. The centuries-long story of the real-life Scarletts is one of cruelty, greed, misogyny, rape, kidnapping, and theft, culminating in the legally sanctioned execution of an eighteen-year-old Black man in 1901--and in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery on a former Scarlett plantation. If novelist Margaret Mitchell had chosen to tell the truth about an enslaving Scarlett, this is the story she might have written. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At its core is the riddle of Stainton's Georgia-born grandmother, Mary \"Mamie\" King Hilsman Pettigrew, who embraced the Lost Cause of the Confederacy but was tormented lifelong by her suspicion that Scarlett men had engaged in racial violence in the twentieth century. Mamie gave Stainton her copies of \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e and Fanny Kemble's 1863 \u003ci\u003eJournal of a Resistance on a Georgia Plantation\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most explosive indictments of American slavery ever written. These books informed Stainton's quest to discover the truth about her Scarlett ancestors and her grandmother's nightmare vision of racial violence involving her family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By threading the stories of Margaret Mitchell and Fanny Kemble through the narrative of her Scarlett forebears, Stainton raises critical questions about the choices Americans have made, then and now, that have cemented the nation's complicity in slavery's persistent legacy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie Stainton\u003c\/b\u003e has served on the board of directors of both the Slave Dwelling Project and Coming to the Table. She is a two-time Fulbright recipient and a former lecturer in creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan Residential College. Stainton is the author of \u003ci\u003eStaging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLorca: A Dream of Life\u003c\/i\u003e and has published essays in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978330177837,"sku":"9781640126756","price":31.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/M6Lm5y92KU9781640126756.webp?v=1775801689","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/scarlett-slaverys-enduring-legacy-in-an-american-family-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}