They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Matted Print allowing a fascinating chapter of

allowing a fascinating chapter of America’s World War I experience to be rediscovered

as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators

edited by Sally Roesch Wagner

The implications of this secret attack raise many explosive new historical questions

including the devastation of rural and urban environments

They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Matted Print allowing a fascinating chapter ofDescription by Kidada Williams Paperback Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress. In this evocative and deeply moving history Kidada