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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.

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Author:	Sara Brooks
Editor:	Thordis Simonsen
ISBN 10:	0393308669
Pages:	228
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date:	January 1, 1990
Binding:	Paperback
Weight:	0.64lbs

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