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

Shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African Americans Well after slavery was abolished,...
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Author: Kidada E. Williams
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Language: English
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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I by Williams, Kidada E.

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

€66,23

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

€66,23
Author: Kidada E. Williams
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 to suppress.

In this evocative and deeply moving history Kidada Williams examines African Americans' testimonies about racial violence. By using both oral and print culture to testify about violence, victims and witnesses hoped they would be able to graphically disseminate enough knowledge about its occurrence and inspire Americans to take action to end it. In the process of testifying, these people created a vernacular history of the violence they endured and witnessed, as well as the identities that grew from the experience of violence. This history fostered an oppositional consciousness to racial violence that inspired African Americans to form and support campaigns to end violence. The resulting crusades against racial violence became one of the political training grounds for the civil rights movement.

Author: Kidada E. Williams
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 03/12/2012
Pages: 293
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.34h x 5.78w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780814795361


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012

About the Author
Williams, Kidada E.: - Kidada E. Williams is Assistant Professor of African American history at Wayne State University

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