num_pages: 208
description: Documents the experiences of African Americans in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island - towns that provided a recurring season of expanded employment opportunities, enhanced social life, cosmopolitan experience, and, in a good year, enough money to last through the winter.
language: English
title: Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August: African-Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930
titlecomplete: Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August: African-Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930 (Blacks in the New World)
genres: History
ratings_count: 6
publisher: University of Illinois Press