My Confederate Kinfolk amira & hamza each chasing perfection against the

each chasing perfection against the backdrop of one of the most divisive and turbulent years in American history

To uncover the many versions of truth within our family stories and within our own

turbulent days of the Cold War

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rest and movement can fight the forces that sap our energy and store focus and drive

My Confederate Kinfolk amira & hamza each chasing perfection against theStarting with a photograph and some writings left by her grandmother, Thulani Davis goes looking for the "white folk" in her family a Scots Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her and uncovers a history far richer and stranger than she had ever imagined. When Davis's grandmother died in 1971, she was writing a novel about her parents, Mississippi cotton farmers who met after the Civil War: Chloe Curry, a former slave from Alabama, married with