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Sto caricando le informazioni... All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974)di Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Unfortunately I could only read a hundred or so pages of this... I found it difficult to slog through the language which is so different than mine and from such a different culture. Also I tend not to like autobiographies. A lot of it, as it was oral history, seemed repetitious, and I feel could benefit from stronger editing. However, I applaud Shaw's confidence and trust in himself. He's the type of man I wish I could meet, what I consider a man's man. I very much enjoyed reading the introduction by Rosengarten. ( ) This was assigned reading for a college history class. I found it fascinating and well worth the long hours of reading required. Gives personal views of slavery, sharecropping, the south, southern justice, southern prison life for African Americans at the time, and tells of the life of a good, kind, and hard-working man. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an "over-average" man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people -- and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)976.1History and Geography North America South Central U.S. AlabamaClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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