They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Matted Print on 8 August

on 8 August

what was right and what was wrong—and they told each other to have courage

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

The story of what happened next—the American Expeditionary Force’s trial by fire on the brutal battlefields of France—is told in full for the first time in Thunder and Flames

They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Matted Print on 8 AugustDescription 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