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Washing Our Hands in the Clouds
Bo Petersen
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Description for Washing Our Hands in the Clouds
Paperback. The history of a region reflected through the life and struggles of one black farmer and his ancestors Num Pages: 176 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
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 the Pee Dee region of Dillon and Marion Counties, he illuminates those issues throughout the Deep South. Through conversations with Joe Williams, his family, and acquaintances, white and black, Petersen merges the Williams family history back to Joe's great-great-grandfather, Scipio Williams, with the lives and fortunes of four generations of South Carolinians--black ... Read more
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 the Pee Dee region of Dillon and Marion Counties, he illuminates those issues throughout the Deep South. Through conversations with Joe Williams, his family, and acquaintances, white and black, Petersen merges the Williams family history back to Joe's great-great-grandfather, Scipio Williams, with the lives and fortunes of four generations of South Carolinians--black ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781611175516
SKU
V9781611175516
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About Bo Petersen
Bo Petersen is an award-winning reporter at the Charleston Post; Courier newspaper. He has also published poetry, short stories, and nonfiction essays.
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