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Lay My Burden Down
Jerrold I. Hirsch
其他書名
A Folk History of Slavery
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 1994
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
History / General
History / United States / 19th Century
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / Social History
History / African American & Black
Reference / Encyclopedias
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Slavery
ISBN
038531115X
9780385311151
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d-Gy7b22KWIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.