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River of blood : American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans

text River of blood : American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans
Summary
"In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved bef... Read more
Contents

Slavery and identity -- Day to day -- Trauma that lasts forever -- War and freedom -- The pain of Reconstruction -- Once a slave.

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Description
240 pages : sepia photographs ; 25 cm.
Publisher
CityFiles Press 2020
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 306.362 RIV in Adult Non-fiction Available

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