All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw
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New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018].
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Second Vintage Books Edition.
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xxv, 561, xiii pages : map ; 22 cm
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO SHAW 2018
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018].
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Book
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Second Vintage Books Edition.
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English

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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1974.
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Includes index.
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In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama [they] found him - the man Theodore Rosengarten calls Nate Shaw - a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning. 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 peopleand whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about. Shaw tells his story 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Shaw, N., & Rosengarten, T. (2018). All God's dangers: the life of Nate Shaw (Second Vintage Books Edition.). Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Shaw, Nate and Theodore, Rosengarten. 2018. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Shaw, Nate and Theodore, Rosengarten. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Shaw, Nate,, and Theodore Rosengarten. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Second Vintage Books Edition., Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

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