![]() ![]() However, this is the year that a white woman next door. So she has resources that she never would have imagined having. She's lucked upon owning a 300-acre farm. And though she has that very haunting history, she's flourishing in 1924. ![]() ![]() SEXTON: So Josephine is a former enslaved woman and a former sharecropper. Josephine, the overwhelming major character. MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON: Thank you for having me. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's new book is "The Revisioners." And she joins us from the studios of Youth Radio in Oakland. It opens with Ava, mixed-race, single mother who moves in with Martha, her declining white grandmother and is brought closure to the story and spirit of Josephine, her other grandmother's great grandmother who escaped from slavery as a child to become a landowner and a matriarch. "The Revisioners" is a story that ties together women of different generations in a family line of different races that spans more than a century. ![]()
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