Saturday, October 4, 2014

Edward Baptist’s New Book Follows the Money on Slavery - NYTimes.com

Edward Baptist’s New Book Follows the Money on Slavery - NYTimes.com:



"“Have you been happier in slavery or free?” a young Works Project Administration interviewer in 1937 asked Lorenzo Ivy, a former slave, in Danville, Va. Ivy responded with a memory of seeing chained African-Americans marching farther South to be sold."



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