Presented by Debra Bruno
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family is a story of a nearly forgotten New York history. When author Debra Bruno realized that her Dutch ancestors had been some of the most entrenched enslavers during 200 years of New York slavery, she knew she had to tell the story. When she met Eleanor Mire, descended from the people her family enslaved, the book expanded into a deeply nuanced and complicated American story.
Author Debra Bruno is a lifelong journalist, based in Washington, D.C. She has written for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications, and has worked at Roll Call, Legal Times, and elsewhere. She was a freelance writer in China for three years, where she wrote about subjects as diverse as hutongs, traditional medicine, and tourism.
