Yazar: Veta Smith Tucker

Veta Smith Tucker is a literary and public historian and an educator. She taught African American literature and African American Studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan for two decades and launched the Kutsche Office of Local History at the university in 2009. Her major published works include articles on enslaved black women, on forgotten nineteenth-century African American author Julia Collins, on historical fiction by contemporary African American women, and A Twenty-First Century History of the 1847 Kentucky Raid in Cass County, Michigan (2010). Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist, historian, educator, and author specializing in African American/Canadian transnationalism. She is Senior Research Fellow for the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, and a Harrison McCain Visiting Professor at Nova Scotia”s Acadia University. Her biography of fugitive slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, I”ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad, won the Governor General”s Award for Non-Fiction, Canada”s highest literary honor. Her forthcoming volume is Steal Away Home: Letters to a Fugitive Slave.