We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia AUTH-12247033 or create your own variations

or create your own variations

Publisher: Saddle Road Press

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What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck

he has no choice but to win her back

We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia AUTH-12247033 or create your own variationsIn the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record of life under the yoke: where slaves lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, how they adjusted to freedom. Here, Belinda Hurmence