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Washing our hands in the clouds : Joe Williams, his forebears, and Black farms in South Carolina /

In Washing Our Hands in the Clouds, Bo Petersen masterfully crafts a reflection on the Civil War, emancipation, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement in the personal story of how it affected one man's life in a specific South Carolina locale. Petersen's accomplishment is that, in studying...

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Main Author:	Petersen, Bo, 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Williams, Joe, > 1954- Williams, Joe, > 1954- > Family. African Americans > South Carolina > Biography. African American farmers > South Carolina > Biography. Free African Americans > South Carolina > Biography. Pee Dee River Region (N.C. and S.C.) > Biography. South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans. South Carolina > Race relations > History. Civil rights movements > South Carolina > History.

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