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Lay My Burden Down

Paperback • 1994 • English

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

By Jerrold Hirsch, B.A. Botkin

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About the book

In the 1930's, the last decade when many men and women who were born under slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.still lived, the New Deal's Federal Writing Project made an extraordinary and important decision. It sent interviewers to ask these African-American survivors : What does it mean to be free? Even more, how does it feel? "Does I remember much 'bout slavery times? Well, there is no way for me to disremember unless I die." B.A. Botkin compiled nearly three hundred of these...Show more

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ISBN

9780385311151

Publisher

Delta

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

Lay My Burden Down

Format

Paperback

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