Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery by B.A. Botkin, Jerrold Hirsch

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

B.A. Botkin, Jerrold Hirsch

352 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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