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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (VINTAGE BOOKS)

by Theodor Rosengarten

ISBN13: 9780679727613
ISBN10: 0679727612
Condition: Worn Condition or Underlined
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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.

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ISBN:: 9780679727613
Subtitle:: (the life of Nate Shaw )
Editor:: Rosengarten, Theodore
Editor:: Stone, Jeff
Author:: Shaw, Nate
Publisher:: Vintage Books
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Religious
Subject:: Biography
Subject:: United States - General
Subject:: Afro-americans
Subject:: Alabama
Subject:: African Americans
Subject:: Segregation
Subject:: Sharecropping.
Subject:: Alabama Biography.
Edition Number:: Vintage Book ed.
Edition Description:: VINTAGE BOOKS
Series Volume:: 3081
Publication Date:: 1989
Binding:: Trade Paper
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: xxvii, 575 p.
Dimensions:: 7.96x5.15x1.08 in. 1.05 lbs.

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