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River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It
By Lange, Dorothea
- ISBN
- 9780991541850
- Publisher
- CityFiles
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 10, 2020 | Nonfiction
Drawing on more than 2,000 interviews of formerly enslaved people conducted by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s, and housed in the Library of Congress, photo historians Cahan and Williams (coauthors, Un-American) present excerpts that focus on the memory of slavery and the horrors of bondage, and of witnessing the Civil War and seeking freedom during Reconstruction. The power of these selections comes through not o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
