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Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves
by Hurmence, Belinda (Editor)
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- Good. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Personal Accounts of Slavery in South Carolina (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-WATER S
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- 089587069X
- ISBN 13
- 9780895870698
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Blair-Blair, 1989. Trade paperback. Good. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Personal Accounts of Slavery in South Carolina (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-WATER STAIN ON TITLE PAGE AND COPYRIGHT PAGE AND LAST 2 PAGES LOWER EDGE-COPYRIGHT 1994-5TH PRINTING-)PUBLISHED BY JOHN F BLAIR... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 135 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Personal Accounts of Slavery in South Carolina (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-WATER STAIN ON TITLE PAGE AND COPYRIGHT PAGE AND LAST 2 PAGES LOWER EDGE-COPYRIGHT 1994-5TH PRINTING-)PUBLISHED BY JOHN F BLAIR PUBLISHERS-135 PAGES TWENTY SEVEN ORAL HISTORIES OF FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVES. During the 1930s, the Federal Writers Project undertook the task of locating former slaves and recording their oral histories. The more than ten thousand pages of interviews with over two thousand former slaves were filed in the Library of Congress, where they were known to scholars and historians but few others. From this storehouse of information, Belinda Hurmence has chosen twenty-seven narratives from the twelve hundred typewritten pages of interviews with 284 former South Carolina slaves. The result is a moving, eloquent, and often surprising firsthand account of the last years of slavery and first years of freedom. The former slaves describe the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the houses they lived in, the work they did, and the treatment they received. They give their impressions of Yankee soldiers, the Klan, their masters, and their newfound freedom. Belinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Columbia University. She has written several novels for young people, including Tough Tiffany (an ALA Notable Book), A Girl Called Boy (winner of the Parents' Choice Award), and The Nightwalker. She has also edited My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery and We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard, companion volumes to this book. She now lives in Raleigh, NC.
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- Title
- Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves
- Author
- Hurmence, Belinda (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Personal Accounts of Slavery in South Carolina (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-WATER S
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 089587069X
- ISBN 13
- 9780895870698
- Publisher
- Blair-Blair
- Place of Publication
- Winston Salem, North Carolina, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1989
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