In Those Days is an oral history from elderly
African Americans in Elbert County, Georgia, and Abbeville County.,
South Carolina. This area, in the northern portion of both states, is
a patchwork of tiny woods and rolling, red clay hills, intermingled
with small towns and hardcabble farms. Sparsely populated and mostly
rural, the region, even today, provides glimpses of a vanishing way
of life in the South. The text explores many facets of African American
life, beginning with slavery, and continuing through to modern times.
The writing emphasizes the recollections of residents through their
own words, with a backdrop of supportive information about the region
and events elsewhere that affected the South. Many historic photographs
illustrate the text. The oral histories were collected by researchers
as part of the Richard B. Russell Dam construction in the early 1980's.
The volume was published by the Technical Assistance and Partnerships
Division, Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service, with
funding supplied by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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