Research Catalog

Title

Tomlinson Hill : the remarkable story of two families who share the Tomlinson name-- one white, one black / Chris Tomlinson ; foreword by LaDainian Tomlinson.

Author

Tomlinson, Chris

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tomlinson, LaDainian

Description

xii, 430 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map; 25 cm

Summary

"Foreign correspondent Chris Tomlinson returns to Texas to discover the truth about his family's slave owning history, [telling] the story of two families, one black and one white, who trace their ancestry to the same Central Texas slave plantation. Tomlinson discovers that his counterpart in the African American family is LaDainian Tomlinson, one of the greatest running backs in the history of the National Football League"--

Subject

• Tomlinson, Chris > Family
• Tomlinson, LaDainian > Family
• African Americans > Tomlinson Hill > Biography
• White people > Tomlinson Hill > Biography
• Enslaved persons > Tomlinson Hill > Biography
• Slaveholders > Tomlinson Hill > Biography
• Plantations > Tomlinson Hill > History
• Slavery > Tomlinson Hill > History
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
• Tomlinson Hill (Tex.) > Biography
• Tomlinson Hill (Tex.) > Race relations

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-413) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781250005472 (hardcover) :
• 1250005477 (hardcover)
• 9781466850507 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014008825

OCLC

• 857981759
• SCSB-11499971

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library