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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw

Theodore Rosengarten

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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw

All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975. On a cold January morning in 1969, a young white graduate student from Massachusetts, stumbling along the dim trail of a long-defunct radical organization of the 1930s, the Alabama Sharecropper Union, heard that there was a survivor and went looking for him. In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama he found him--the man he calls Nate Shaw--a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning. Theodore Rosengarten, the student, had found a black Homer, bursting with his black Odyssey and able to tell it with awesome intellectual power, with passion, with the almost frightening power of memory in a man who could neither read nor write but who sensed that the substance of his own life, and a million other black lives like his, were the very fiber of the nation's history.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Year
1975
ISBN-13
9780224011822
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
African American historySharecropping and rural laborRace relations in the American South

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  • Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

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