All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Description
An extraordinary oral history, this book recounts the life of an African American sharecropper in the Jim Crow South, tracing his childhood, family, labor, encounters with racial violence, and struggle for dignity and independence. Through vivid memories and hard-won wisdom, it illuminates the realities of tenant farming, poverty, segregation, and the often-overlooked history of Black resistance in the rural South. Preserved with remarkable immediacy and storytelling power, the narrative offers both an intimate portrait of one man and a sweeping testimony to endurance, courage, and the human cost of injustice.
Available Editions
paperback
University Of Chicago Press
Published May 1, 2000
600 pages
ISBN: 9780226727745
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Details
First Published
1974
Language
eng
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Content and trigger warnings for All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten.