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Ruth and George
Ruth Toliver
George Newman, born to free Black parents in 1855, was only 21 or 22 when he wrote the novel, A Miserable Revenge: A Story of Life in Virginia. Newman’s granddaughter, Ruth Toliver, talks about the just-published novel with Virginia Humanities Center for the Book director Kalela Williams.
The First of its Kind
Mollie Godfrey (James Madison University) and Brooks Hefner (James Madison University)
Mollie Godfrey and Brooks Hefner helped bring Newman’s fascinating novel into digital and print publication.
Power, and Passsing
Deborah Parker (University of Virginia)
The author of Becoming Belle da Costa-Green: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters recounts the accomplishments of the first Director of the fabulous Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. Deborah Parker says Belle da Costa-Green spent her life passing as white, even though she was the daughter of a prominent African American family.
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