Washing Our Hands in the Clouds: Joe Williams, His Forebears, and Black Farms in South Carolina

by Bo Peterson

In Washing Our Hands in the Clouds, Bo Petersen masterfully crafts a reflection on the Civil War, emancipation, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement in the personal story of how it affected one man's life in a specific South Carolina locale. Petersen's accomplishment is that, in studying the Pee Dee region of Dillon and Marion Counties, he illuminates those issues throughout the Deep South. Through conversations with Joe Williams, his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611175518
• ISBN13: 9781611175516
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"