In this evocative and deeply moving history kidada williams examines african americans testimonies about racial violence by using both oral and print culture to testify about violence victims and witnesses hoped they would be able to graphically disseminate enough knowledge about its occurrence and inspire americans to take action to end it in the process of testifying these people . Most studies of racial violence in the postemancipation and jim crow eras have centered either on the perpetrators delving into causes and motivations or on org. They left great marks on me african american testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to world war i by kidada e williams published march 2012 kidada e williams isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. They left great marks on me african american testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to world war i kidada e williams nyu press mar 12 2012 history 281 pages 1 review shares wrenching accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated african americans well after slavery was abolished its legacy of violence left deep wounds on african americans bodies minds . They left great marks on me african american testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to world war i by williams kidada e new york ny new york university press 2012 pp ix 281 2500