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Prayin' to Be Set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi

Prayin' to Be Set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi

Waters, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Real Voices, Real History Series

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0895872560
ISBN13: 9780895872562
Publisher: Blair
Published: Feb 1 2002
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In his introduction to Prayin' to Be Set Free, Andrew Waters likens the personal accounts of former Mississippi slaves to the music of that state's legendary blues artists. The pain, the modest eloquence, and even the underlying vitality are much the same.

What is now Mississippi wasn't acquired by the United States until 1798, at which time it had fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, excluding Native Americans. By the Civil War, it had over 430,000 slaves and 350,000 whites. More than half the whites were members of slave-owning families. The majority of slaves worked in the cotton fields. Mississippi was known as a slave-buying frontier state, in contrast to the eastern states, which sold slaves westward. Indeed, many of the former slaves in this book speak of coming to Mississippi as children.

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