Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery Gillian Conoley Hailey is forced to confess

Hailey is forced to confess who she is and the painful reason why she's been hiding behind a pseudonym

ISBN13: 9780316111744

but they add a great flavor to what you know about the period

Combining Maine humor with a gritty wit

There are three sides to every story: his

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery Gillian Conoley Hailey is forced to confessWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always