Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1945. First Edition. Original cloth. 6 X 9 1/8 Inches. 286 PP. "In their own fascinating anecdotes and folk tales, former Negro slaves tell what slavery and emacipation meant to each of them." (From the Cover) Scarce first printing of this selection of excerpts..... More