God Struck Me Dead: Religious Conversion Experiences and Autobiographies of Negro Ex-Slaves

by Andrew Polk Watson, Paul Radin, Charles S. Johnson

$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Nashville, TN: Social Science Institute, Fisk University, 1945. First edition of this scarce collection of ex-slave narratives, autobiographical memories and recollections of conversion experiences of elderly African Americans born under slavery. 218 pp. Stapled sheets in partial original wrap, linen cloth spine. Text printed and numbered on rectos only. Good, with large chip to front wrap and first blank; rear wrap is

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