| All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Contributor(s): Rosengarten, Theodore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525562850 ISBN-13: 9780525562856 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Cooking | Beverages - Alcoholic- General - Cooking | Reference |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (1.20 lbs) 608 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |