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“A gorgeous book―funny, sad, packed with action and details about life in black Alabama within the decades before World War II. . . . A great addition to the growing of books by and about black Ladies.” ―Dorothy Sterling, creator of We Are Your Sisters: Black Ladies within the Nineteenth Century
The daughter of a freeholder, Sara Brooks was once born in 1911 on her parents’ subsistence farm in west Alabama. Here in her own words, she makes us take note what it felt love to be young, black, innocent, and steeped within the ways of a black rural world that has in large part been lost to us.