All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw - Hardcover

Nate Shaw

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394490843 ISBN 13: 9780394490847

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974

Synopsis

A record of the personal struggles and determination of a Black tenant farmer born in Alabama in 1885

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Extraordinarily rich and compelling."--The Washington Post

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0394490843
• ISBN 13: 9780394490847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 561