They Left Great Marks on Me
African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
| Author: | Kidada E. Williams | ISBN: | 9780814795378 |
| Publisher: | NYU Press | Publication: | March 12, 2012 |
| Imprint: | NYU Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Kidada E. Williams |
| ISBN: | 9780814795378 |
| Publisher: | NYU Press |
| Publication: | March 12, 2012 |
| Imprint: | NYU Press |
| Language: | English |
Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress.
Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress.
