“Denmark Vesey’s Garden,” a book written by two Fresno State history professors, rose to the top of six “best of 2018” book lists, including “Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018,” published by The New York Times.

A book that strikes at the source of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans and elsewhere, “Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy” reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the slaves brought to the U.S. stepped onto the shore.

Fresno State faculty Dr. Ethan Kytle and Dr. Blain Roberts published the book in April 2018 and received positive reviews from the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times.

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