Songs of the Workers to Fan the Flames of Discontent Issued July, 1945 in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the IWWHill, Joe, Ralph Chaplin, John Brill, John F Kendrick, GG Allen, James Connell, Eugene Pottier, JE Sinclair, Loren Roberts, Vera Moller, Pat Brennan, John E Nordquist, Richard Brazier, ES Nelson, William Whalen, T-Bone Slim, Walquist, Ethel Comer, E Nesbit, Gerald J Lively, WO Blee, Joe Foley, John Healy, Laura Payne Emerson, Covington Hall, Charles Ashleigh, Dublin Dan & An Unknown Proletarian (contributors)

    It sent interviewers to ask these African-American survivors: What does it mean to be free? Even more, how does it feel?"Does I remember much 'bout slavery times? Well, there is no way for me to disremember unless I die."B.A. Botkin compiled nearly three hundred of these narratives to create a rich, unvarnished portrait of lives lived half slave, half free. In it, people who experienced the seasonal rhythms of plantation life ... who were eyewitnesses to Lincoln, Douglas, and Tubman ... who had their conciousness shaped by bondage ... and who felt the anguish of the lash have their memories brought to life again. Their voices reach out across the decades and teach us what they know — our history and our legacy in their telling of an indelible truth.