All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw

Title: All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Author: Theodore Rosengarten
ISBN: 9780525562856
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2018
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 2
Number of Pages: 608
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
C: 1698658
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Cultural & Regional
Publisher Description: 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.