They Left Great Marks on Me : : African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I /

They Left Great Marks on Me : : African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I / / Kidada E. Williams.

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Shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African AmericansWell 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, lynchin...

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Williams, Kidada E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 “The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution”: The Terror of Emancipation
  • 2 “A Long Series of Oppression, Injustice, and Violence”: The Purgatory of Sectional Reconciliation
  • 3 “Lynched, Burned Alive, Jim-Crowed . . . in My Country”: Shaping Responses to the Descent to Hell
  • 4 “If You Can, the Colored Needs Help”: Reaching Out from Local Communities
  • 5 “It Is Not for Us to Run Away from Violence”: Fueling the NAACP’s Antilynching Crusade
  • Epilogue: Closer to the Promised Land
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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