The promise of the New South : life after Reconstruction /
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching....
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007
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| Edition: | 15th anniversary ed |
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