Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery Paperback - 1994
by B. A. Botkin (Editor); Foreword by Jerrold I. Hirsch
This collection of nearly 300 narratives tells the real story of life under slavery, as told by those who actually lived it. "Every historian, every teacher, every citizen who is concerned about the problem of intercultural education and understanding will want to read this book".--Christian Science Monitor. 16 pages of photos.
First line
We begin with people talking and swapping stories-the way all literature and history began in the days before writing.
From the jacket flap
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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- Title Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery
- Author B. A. Botkin (Editor); Foreword by Jerrold I. Hirsch
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Delta, New York
- Date 1994-02-19
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780385311151 / 038531115X
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 5.92 x 0.9 in (23.27 x 15.04 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Slaves - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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