Celebrate the Special Anniversary of the book that changed America's understanding of how Blacks survived slavery to become loving parents, with new photos. From Los Angeles to New Orleans, from a nursing home in Kentucky to Piggly Wiggly in South Carolina, Sugar of the Crop recounts her efforts to track down the sons and daughters of parents born before 1865, a generation that everyone believed was dead. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part memoir, Sugar of the Crop tells a rare and intimate story of freed slaves as mothers and fathers, husbands and wives; and why they wanted their children to be "big." Not since the Works Progress Adminstraton gathered Slave Narratives during the Great Depression has a journalist conducted such in-depth primary interview into this period in American history.
Celebrate the Special Anniversary of the book that changed America's understanding of how Blacks survived slavery to become loving parents, with new photos. From Los Angeles to New Orleans, from a nursing home in Kentucky to Piggly Wiggly in South Carolina, Sugar of the Crop recounts her efforts to track down the sons and daughters of parents born before 1865, a generation that everyone believed was dead. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part memoir, Sugar of the Crop tells a rare and intimate story of freed slaves as mothers and fathers, husbands and wives; and why they wanted their children to be "big." Not since the Works Progress Adminstraton gathered Slave Narratives during the Great Depression has a journalist conducted such in-depth primary interview into this period in American history.
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