All God's Dangers : : the Life of Nate Shaw
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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1974.
Includes index.
"On a cold January morning in 1969, [two] young white... student[s] from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecroppers Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking for him.
In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama [they] found him - the man Theodore Rosengarten calls Nate Shaw - a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning...Theodore Rosengarten...had found a black Homer, bursting with his black Odyssey and able to tell it with awesome intellectual power, with passion, with the almost frightening power of memory in a man who could neither read nor write but who sensed that the substance of his own life, and a million other black lives like his, were the very fiber of the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.
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PUBLISHED
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: xxv, 575 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0226727742 (paper : acid-free paper)
9780226727745 (paper : acid-free paper)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rosengarten, Theodore.
SUBJECTS
Shaw, Nate.
Sharecroppers -- Alabama -- Biography.
Sharecropping -- Alabama -- History -- Sources.
African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography.
Alabama -- Biography.