Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery
by B.A. Botkin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good+
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
University of Chicago Press. 1946. Fine Second impression showing portrait of negro slave on front of brown cloth boards having copper lettering to spine. Good plus unclipped ($3.50) jacket shows edge-wear, small chip at top of spine, some paper loss on bottom of spine and a closed 0.75 in. cut on upper right of front. The author was the Folklore Editor of the Federal Writer's Project in 1938-1939. The book is the "unconscious history" of slavery as told by former Negro slaves. "for here the last of the ex-slaves become their own historians and record for men the world over the story of one people walking the arduous road to liberty." (jacket back). 6x9.25. 286 pg.
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- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 181
- Title
- Lay My Burden Down
- Author
- B.A. Botkin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 286
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Folk history, slavery, Negro, emancipation
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