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Stars fell on Alabama.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carmer, Carl, 1893-1976 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1934.
Subjects:
Folklore > Alabama.
African Americans > Alabama.
African Americans > Folklore.
Alabama > Description and travel.
Alabama > Social life and customs.
Noirs américains > Alabama.
Noirs américains > Folklore.
Alabama > Descriptions et voyages.
Alabama > Mœurs et coutumes.
African Americans.
Folklore.
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Alabama.
Historical fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Tuscaloosa Nights
  • I arrive
  • Tuscaloosa
  • Black rituals
  • golf course cabin
  • shoutin' in moonlight
  • Part II. In the Red Hills
  • Ladies bow, gents know how
  • All-day singing
  • Footwashing
  • Sweet william came from the western states
  • Court week
  • Birmingham
  • Part III. Black Belt
  • Greene county rally
  • Big house
  • thorn hill
  • rosemount
  • gaineswood and bluff hall
  • Plaisant pays de france
  • Front gallery
  • 1. the tale of the gilded mirror
  • 2. the tale of the wedding ring
  • 3. the tale of the white dove
  • 4. the tale of the stud nigger
  • The tombigbee outlaws
  • 1. railroad bill
  • 2. the outlaw sheriff of sumter county
  • 3. rube burrow: alabama robin hood
  • God in the canebrake
  • 1. ben delimus
  • 2. the sims war
  • 3. the prophetess of eutaw
  • White man's nigger: I
  • Miss polly
  • Brer rabbit multiplies
  • Lynching
  • Part IV. Conjure Country
  • Two-two tom
  • A good man to work for
  • Processional
  • White man's nigger: II
  • Conjure woman
  • Reminiscence
  • Part V. Mobile and the Bayou Country
  • Mobile
  • Coq d'inde
  • Dauphin island
  • Part VI. Cajan
  • Citronelle
  • The hell-raisin'
  • Twilight of the races