Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Laura Arnold Leibman’s Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family will be out in July, published by Oxford University Press. Here is a brief review by Publishers Weekly: Reed College English professor Leibman ( Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism) uncovers in this exhaustive chronicle the lost history of a prominent New York City Jewish family. Though heiress Blanche Moses (1859–1946) obsessively collected family records, she “drew an uncharacteristic blank” when it came to the maternal line of her grandmother, Sarah Brandon Moses (1798–1829), and great-uncle, Isaac Lopez Brandon (1793–1855), whose father was the “wealthiest Jew” on the island of Barbados. Leibman reveals that Sarah and Isaac were actually born “poor, Christian, and enslaved”: their mother was a multiracial woman owned by another Jewish family on the island.