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Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom
Sapelo's People A Long Walk into Freedom Author:William S. McFeely In this moving and original work, William S McFeely, one of the country's most distinguished historians, retells the history -- and enters into the current day lives of the people who inhabit Sapelo's Island off the coast of Georgia, descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantations. It is at once a richly detailed work o... more »f historical reconstruction, a sensitive portrait of the lives of black Americans in this particular place and in our own time, and a moving meditation on race by a writer who has made its painful dilemmas his life's work as a historian.« less