Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

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Benjamin Albert Botkin
University of Chicago Press, 1961 - African Americans - 297 pages

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Contents

PART ONE MOTHER
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TALL TALES AND TALL TALK
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TAKE FREEDOM
267
Copyright

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TitleLay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery
Volume 24 of Phoenix books
EditorBenjamin Albert Botkin
Edition5
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press, 1961
Length297 pages
  
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