{"title":"Belinda Hurmence","description":"Belinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Columbia University. She has written several novels for young people, including Tough Tiffany (an ALA Notable Book), A Girl Called Boy (winner of the Parents' Choice Award), Tancy (winner of a Golden Kite Award), and The Nightwalker. She has also edited My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery and Before Freedom: When I Just Can Remember, companion volumes to this book. She now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.","products":[{"product_id":"we-lived-in-a-little-cabin-in-the-yard-personal-accounts-of-slavery-in-virginia-paperback","title":"We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record of life under the yoke: where slaves lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, how they adjusted to freedom. Here, Belinda Hurmence presents the interviews of 21 former Virginia slaves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a companion volume to Hurmence's popular collections of North Carolina and South Carolina slave narratives, \u003cem\u003eMy Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBefore Freedom, When I Just Can Remember\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Columbia University. She has written several novels for young people, including \u003cem\u003eTough Tiffany\u003c\/em\u003e (an ALA Notable Book), \u003cem\u003eA Girl Called Boy\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Parents' Choice Award), \u003cem\u003eTancy\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of a Golden Kite Award), and \u003cem\u003eThe Nightwalker\u003c\/em\u003e. She now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366355402975,"sku":"9780895871183","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BsK8MtPAlB9780895871183.webp?v=1789091648"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/belinda-hurmence.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}