You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks

by Sara Brooks, Thordis Simonsen (Editor), Robert Coles M.D. (Foreword by)

Overview

“A wonderful book—funny, sad, packed with action and information about life in black Alabama in the decades before World War II. . . . A welcome addition to the growing of books by and about black women.” —Dorothy Sterling, author of We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

The daughter of a freeholder, Sara Brooks was born in 1911 on her parents’ subsistence farm in west Alabama. Here in her own words, she makes us understand what it felt like to be young, black, innocent, and steeped in the ways of a black rural world that has largely been lost to us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393308662
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/17/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sara Brooks was the daughter of a freeholder born in 1911 on her parents’ subsistence farm in west Alabama.

Thordis Simonsen is a writer, visual artist, and speaker who lives in Denver, Colorado, and Elika, Greece.

Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist and writer who has spent his life doing documentary work. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.