All God's Dangers(2nd Edition) The Life of Nate Shaw by TheodoreRosengarten Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56285-6, ISBN: 0-525-56285-0
"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, i ..."
"Through the prism of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket, Grass Roots guides readers across 300 years of American and African history. In scholarly essays and beautiful photographs, Grass Roots follows the coiled basket along its transformation on two continents from a simple farm tool once used for processing grain to a work of art and a central symbol of African and African American identity. Featu ..."
"In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society, and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity. The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish histo ..."
All God's Dangers The Life of Nate Shaw by TheodoreRosengarten, Nate Shaw Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72774-5, ISBN: 0-226-72774-2
"All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975."There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's."--New York Times"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 fo ..."
"Through the prism of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket, Grass Roots guides readers across 300 years of American and African history. In scholarly essays and beautiful photographs, Grass Roots follows the coiled basket along its transformation on two continents from a simple farm tool once used for processing grain to a work of art and a central symbol of African and African American identity. Featu ..."
"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, i ..."
Tombee(1st Edition) Portrait of a Cotton Planter. With the Plantation Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) by TheodoreRosengarten, Susan W. Walker, Thomas Benjamin Chaplin Hardcover, 750 Pages, Published 1986 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-688-05412-0, ISBN: 0-688-05412-9
"Tombee was an unlucky slave owner and cotton planter on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. His real name was Thomas B. Chaplin, and we know him because of his plantation journal, kept between 1845 and 1858. The fascination of this journal is enhanced by notes that Chaplin added periodically after 1865, bringing the lives of his characters up-to-date. Not unnaturally, he compared his poverty after the Civil War with antebellum opulence, ..."
"All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975."There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's."—New York Times"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 ..."
All God's Dangers(1st Edition) The Life of Nate Shaw by TheodoreRosengarten, Nate Shaw Hardcover, 561 Pages, Published 1974 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-49084-7, ISBN: 0-394-49084-3
"All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975."There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness. . . . Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's."—New York Times"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 ..."
"This book is the legacy of an exhibition entitled "Human/Nature: Art and Landscape in Charleston and the Low Country, " a special project of the twenty-first season of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. In "Human/Nature, " the diverse works of art were scattered around the city and the surrounding countryside, offering perceptive glimpses into the low-country environment for Spoleto visitors and native Charlestonians alike. With photographs by ..."
"Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness. In these novels and stories, she tapped the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture the co ..."
"Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's livestock. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, All God's Dangers, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral ..."
"This book of 71 photographs, reproduced in duotone, was produced to accompany a traveling exhibition organized by the High Museum of Art in 1990 and 1991."
"The fall of Atlanta is a great disaster, but not irretrievable. I trust every energy will
be put forth. Some of the scenes Mr. Stephens foretold are upon us. I am not
depressed yet. We leave tomorrow, a day earlier than expected. I never had a
sweeter visit. Dear Mrs. Toombs is so good and sweet, and Mrs. Du- Bose is
fascinating indeed, so sparkling, that is the word to apply to her. Mrs. DuBose
goes with us to Barnett tomorrow. So ..."
"Lonnie Holley (born 1950), acclaimed by The New York Times as "the Insider's Outsider," is best known for his assemblage sculptures incorporating natural and man-made materials, often cast off or discarded; he has recently also begun to make music, through the Dust-to-Digital label. Legendary for his environmental assemblage that spread over two acres of his property in Birmingham, Alabama--now destroyed--Holley scavenges and repurposes ..."