River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans by Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, Dorothea Lange

River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans

Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, Dorothea Lange

240 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved befo...

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