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All God's Children

From the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of China: Alive in the Bitter Seacomes the poignant story of how the tradition of white Southern violence and racism has long affected and still haunts one black family. Butterfield follows the Bosket family of Edgefield County, South Carolina, from the days of slavery to the present. Photos.

Genre
crime
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 389 pages

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