Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family Audiobook, by Laura Arnold Leibman Play Audiobook Sample

Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family Audiobook

Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family Audiobook, by Laura Arnold Leibman Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Susan Ericksen Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798765022764

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

58:54 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

12:58 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

43:59 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and—at times—white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race—as well as on the role of religion in racial shift—in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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About Susan Ericksen

Susan Ericksen is an actor and voice-over artist. She has been awarded numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. As an actor and director, she has worked in theaters throughout the country.