Dimensions
152 x 229 x 32mm
AMERICAN TAPESTRY unearths the hidden story of First Lady Michelle Obama's multiracial ancestors, a history that she did not even know herself. It is a sweeping saga that traces the black, white and multiracial forebears of the nation's first African-American first lady back to the 19th century and reveals, for the first time, the identity of Mrs. Obama's white great-great-great grandfather, a man who remained hidden for more than a century in her family tree.
AMERICAN TAPESTRY illuminates the lives of the ordinary people who fought for freedom in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; who founded the Jewish Reform movement; who endured the agonies of slavery, the displacement of the Great Migration, and the horros of Jim Crow as they journeyed from slavery to the White House in five generations. It is an intimate family history, but it is also the collective story of this changing nation. It reflects America's narrative in which racial intermingling lingers in the bloodlines of countless Americans and slavery remains the crucible through which many family lines -- black, white, and Native American -- were forged.
