Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

by Jerrold I. Hirsch, B. A. Botkin (Editor)

Overview

This collection of nearly 300 narratives tells the real story of life under slavery, as told by those who actually lived it. "Every historian, every teacher, every citizen who is concerned about the problem of intercultural education and understanding will want to read this book".--Christian Science Monitor. 16 pages of photos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385311151
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/1994
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xxxiii
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Mother Wit	7
	Fooling Master and Catching John	9
	Tall Tales and Tall Talk	17
	How Come	20
	Lincoln and Others	23
	Birds and Beasts	29
	Pastor and Flock	33
	The Power	38
	Hants	48
	Anecdotes	59
Part 2	Long Remembrance	71
Part 3	From Can to Can't	143
	Count the Stars through the Cracks	145
	Going High, Going Slow	159
	Praying to the Right Man	170
	The Slave's Chance	182
Part 4	A War Among the White Folks	199
	They Made Us Sing "Dixie"	201
	We've Come to Set You Free	212
Part 5	All I Know About Freedom	229
	How Freedom Came	231
	The Breaking-Up and After	238
	The Equalization War	265
	I Take Freedom	279
	List of Informants and Interviewers	283
	Index	307

Editorial Reviews

A reprint of the U. of Chicago Press edition of 1945 with a long new foreword by Jerrold Hirsch. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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