Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781415901076 (1415901074)
Publish date: May 25th 2004
Publisher: Books on Tape
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Read For School,
African American,
American History,
Crime,
True Crime,
Race
Americans love their sanitized, After-School Special version of the civil rights movement, in which we've progressed inevitably from the bad old days of slavery to the modern day where racism is just the occasional gaffe that gets a news commentator fired or a few hicks wearing sheets way off in the...
Really good memoir. I'll add more later, but in the meantime, here's a interesting piece of information:In 1662, the Virginia legislature passed a law that read, "Children got by an Englishman upon a Negro woman shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother." Seems otherwise innocu...
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