Reader recommendation: Been in the Storm So Long

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I have been impressed by the depth of research and the ideas in Leon F. Litwack's Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He shows the myths and truths about what really went on when freedom first came to the enslaved in the South.

 
 
 

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