Red River Examines Reconstruction-Era Massacre
Red River gives a rich impression of a family history expansively and proudly told. Lalita Tademy tells us that extracting the history of her father's ancestors was sometimes painful. A different type of family story, lacking shape and enthusiasm, only stingily disclosed, rationed with vague hints or whispers, and only then with great reluctance and obvious discomfort by the teller. It's a tragic fact that the voices of many African-Americans who endured slavery in America were never recorded. Lalita Tademy's decision to re-create these lost voices by using the format of a historical novel is her artistic response to this gap in our national history.
The Prologue is written in the voice of Polly Tademy as she turns 100 in 1935. As the wife of Sam Tademy, she had lived through the Colfax massacre of Easter Sunday 1873. Of herself and her women friends, she writes: "Outlasting our men, our husbands, our sons, even some grandsons. We all......

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Title: Red River Examines Reconstruction-Era Massacre
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