You May Plow Here by Sara Brooks

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“A wonderful book—funny, sad, packed with action and information about life in black Alabama in the decades before World War II. . . . A welcome addition to the growing of books by and about black women.” —Dorothy Sterling, author of We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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You May Plow Here by Sara Brooks

The daughter of a freeholder, Sara Brooks was born in 1911 on her parents' subsistence farm in west Alabama. Here in her own words, she makes us understand what it felt like to be young, black, innocent, and steeped in the ways of a black rural world that has largely been lost to us.
Sara Brooks was the daughter of a freeholder born in 1911 on her parents’ subsistence farm in west Alabama. Thordis Simonsen is a writer, visual artist, and speaker who lives in Denver, Colorado, and Elika, Greece. Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist and writer who has spent his life doing documentary work. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
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ISBN 13 9780393308662
ISBN 10 0393308669
Title You May Plow Here
Author Sara Brooks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Year published 1992-06-18
Number of pages 228
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.