You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks

by Sara Brooks

Other authorsRobert Coles (Foreword), Thordis Simonsen (Editor)
Hardcover, 1986

Status

Available

Publication

WW Norton & Co (1986), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 222 pages

Description

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.

Awards

Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Outstanding Merit — 1988)

Language

Physical description

222 p.; 1 inches

ISBN

0393022579 / 9780393022575

Local notes

biography
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