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

by Kidada E. Williams

Book Overview

Shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African Americans

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814795366
• ISBN13: 9780814795361
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.3"