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You may plow here : the narrative of Sara Brooks / edited by Thordis Simonsen ; foreword by Robert Coles.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.B82 A35 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Sara, 1911-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooks, Sara, 1911-.
- Brooks, Sara.
- African Americans--Alabama--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Farm life--Alabama--History--20th century.
- Farm life.
- Manners and customs.
- Rural conditions.
- History.
- Alabama--Biography.
- Alabama.
- Alabama--Rural conditions--Case studies.
- African Americans--Alabama--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1986.
- Contents:
- We Had Some Farm
- Laziness'll Kill You
- The Things He Knew How to Do, He Did Em
- It's Cracklin Bread!
- We Did It on Saturday
- On Sundays I Wore Baby Doll Shoes
- We Laid by the Crop in July
- Pickin' Cotton Was the Tiredest Thing
- We's Fixin to Kill a Hog
- Oh, We'd Have Good Plays
- Christmas Gif', Hand it Here
- You May Plow Here
- I Had to Learn on My Own
- The Burden Was on Me
- Somethin Better Gonna Come to Me
- I Made It.
- Notes:
- "The text of this book is composed in Palatino, with display type set in Palatino."
- "Jacket design by Chris Simon."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0393022579 :
- OCLC:
- 12106612
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