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Red Clay

by Charles B. Fancher

A family history shaped by slavery and Reconstruction

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work winner

    The supplied metadata identifies Red Clay as the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.

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A family history shaped by slavery and Reconstruction

Set in Red Clay, Alabama, the novel links the lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins. Its framing story opens in 1943, after the funeral of Felix H. Parker, when Adelaide Parker arrives with a family connection neither household fully understands. Her account brings ambition, betrayal, violence, and redemption into a shared history marked by gaps in what each family knows. The description also points to a wider geographical scope, including Paris, though the supplied text cuts off before detailing that part of the story.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical fiction set around the Civil War and Reconstruction.
  • Readers seeking multigenerational stories about family history and racial power.
  • Readers interested in narratives that connect distant generations through shared, incomplete histories.

Themes

Enslavement and racial powerFamily history and inheritanceReconstructionMemory and incomplete knowledge

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Book overview

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK

An astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.

In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former slave--on the morning following his funeral--his family hardly knows what to expect after she utters the words "... a lifetime ago, my family owned yours." Adelaide Parker has a story to tell--one of ambition, betrayal, violence, and redemption--that shaped both the fate of her family and that of the late Felix H. Parker.

But there are gaps in her knowledge, and she's come to Red Clay seeking answers from a family with whom she shares a name and a history that neither knows in full. In an epic saga that takes us from Red Clay to Paris, to the C

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