Nov 23, 2020
Charlie and Tammye Huf (A More Perfect Union) discuss her great-great-grandparents’ relationship as an 1840s Irishman and a Black American slave, the way owners used Christianity to support their views of a racial hierarchy, and the lengths reached in order to label people by skin colour.
Some podcast apps do not show description links properly unless the listener subscribes to the podcast. If you can't click the links below and don't wish to subscribe, copy and paste the following address into your browser to access the episode's page on my blog: http://wormhole.carnelianvalley.com/podcast/episode-27-tammye-huf
Tammye's Radio 2 interview
Library of Congress audio interviews
with freed people
Question Index
01:02 (Discussing Tammye's recent interview on
Radio 2)
02:04 Tell us about your
great-great-grandparents
03:28 What made you want to tell this story, to
start with your grandparents and take it further?
08:22 How important was balancing the romance with
the history?
09:23 Any there are specific primary sources you
used that you can highlight?
11:56 Do you feel closer to your grandparents
now?
12:48 How did you go about creating Sarah?
17:52 Who is Maple; why did you include her in the
story?
20:49 Did you always plan to have this 'nicer'
owner?
23:32 Were there many people who were offered
their freedom, didn't take it for family reasons and so forth, and
were then used as a puppet?
26:35 To me Henry comes across as quite careless
sometimes - did you ever consider a different bearing for him?
30:13 Could you tell us about the Potato Famine
era 'tumbling'?
32:03 Do you think Red ever found his freedom?
32:54 What's next?
Purchase Links
A More Perfect Union:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Waterstones
Hive
I am an Amazon Associate and earn a small commission on qualifying purchases. Likewise IndieBound.
Photograph used with the permission of the publisher.