All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw /
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 c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Knopf ;
1974.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | A Borzoi book
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| Summary: | 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 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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| Physical Description: | xxv, 561, xii pages : map : 25 cm |
| Awards: | National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs, 1975 |
| ISBN: | 0394490843 9780394490847 9780226727745 0226727742 |