SLAVERY TIME WHEN I WAS CHILLUN DOWN ON MARSTER'S PLANTATION:;…

SLAVERY TIME WHEN I WAS CHILLUN DOWN ON MARSTER'S PLANTATION:; Interviews with Georgia Slaves. by Killion, Ronald, and Charles Waller, editors. < >

SLAVERY TIME WHEN I WAS CHILLUN DOWN ON MARSTER'S PLANTATION:; Interviews with Georgia Slaves.

Edition: First edition.

Savannah GA: The Beehive Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which contains complete interviews with eighteen former slaves, plus selections from the reminiscences of fifty further slaves. "During the 1930s the last former slaves were disappearing from the American scene. These men and women were the last living witnesses to slavery in the United States, and this was the final opportunity to learn from them what slavery was really, intimately like. Field workers of the Federal Writers' Project were dispatched to ask them about plantation life, work, punishment, religion, runaways and more." Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. References, index. Square format. xviii, 167 pp.

Condition: Very good in brown cloth in a very good dust jacket (previous owner's name dated 1973, a few penciled brackets in book, some short closed tears to dj)

Book ID: 88321
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