Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery - Couverture souple

Hirsch, Jerrold I.

 
9780385311151: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 038531115X ISBN 13 : 9780385311151
Editeur : Random House Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

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 narratives to create a rich, unvarnished  portrait of lives lived half slave, half free. In  it, people who experienced the seasonal rhythms of  plantation life . . .who were eyewitnesses to  Lincoln, Douglas, and Tubman . . .who had their  conciousness shaped by bondage . . .and who felt the  anguish of the lash have their memories brought to  life again. Their voices reach out across the  decades and teach us what they know -- our history and  our legacy in their telling of an indelible truth.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 narratives to create a rich, unvarnished  portrait of lives lived half slave, half free. In  it, people who experienced the seasonal rhythms of  plantation life . . .who were eyewitnesses to  Lincoln, Douglas, and Tubman . . .who had their  conciousness shaped by bondage . . .and who felt the  anguish of the lash have their memories brought to  life again. Their voices reach out across the  decades and teach us what they know -- our history and  our legacy in their telling of an indelible truth.

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Éditeur
Random House Publishing Group
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
038531115X
ISBN 13 
9780385311151
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Botkin B. A.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1125216794 ISBN 13 :  9781125216798
Editeur : University Of Chicago Press, 1945
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