Yuletide in Dixie w/ Robert May

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Yuletide in Dixie w/ Robert May

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Jan 3, 2020

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According to the church calendar, it's still Christmas. Sorry Scrooges, it's Christmas and you can't do anything about it. What you can do is listen to Professor Robert May talk about his book, Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5317.

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