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
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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.
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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.

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