My face is black is true : Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations /
Examines the life of Callie House, a woman who was born into slavery in 1861 and later became a laundress in Nashville, focusing on her demand that the U.S. government pay pensions to ex-slaves for centuries of unpaid labor, and discussing the efforts of the Justice Department to stop House and her...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Berry, Mary Frances
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Vintage Books,
2006
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage books ed |
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