We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia AUTH-12247033 and to defend their gains

and to defend their gains by force of arms

Or be a warrior

and greed to find a vicious killer

ISBN10: 1937902358

Publisher: Saddle Road Press

We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia AUTH-12247033 and to defend their gainsIn the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record of life under the yoke: where slaves lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, how they adjusted to freedom. Here, Belinda Hurmence