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No Man's Yoke on My Shoulders

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Availability:In StockContributor:Horace Randall Williams (Editor)Series:Real Voices, Real HistoryPublish date:2006-02-01Pages:102
Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9780895872852ISBN-10:895872854UPC:9780895872852Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Slavery, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCCV8YJ2GA

No Man's Yoke on My Shoulders

"One day, I went to the slave market and watched em barter off po' niggers lak tey was hogs," said George Lycurgas, as recalled by his son, Edward. "Whole families sold together, and some was split--mother gone to one marster and father and children gone to others. They'd bring a slave out on the platform and open his mouth, pound his chest, make him harden his muscles so the buyer could see what...

Series: Real Voices, Real History
Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9780895872852ISBN-10:895872854UPC:9780895872852Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Slavery, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & LocalSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCCV8YJ2GA

Horace Randall Williams describes himself as "among the last of Alabamians--black or white--who have memories of picking cotton by hand not for a few minutes to see how it felt but because I needed the few dollars I would get for a day's hard labor under a hot sun." He was the founder and for many years the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project. He also edited Weren't No...

Publisher: Blair

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