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Hardcover:
9780226188713 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 5, 2015, cover price $45.00
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9781570034459 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $34.95
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Hardcover:
9781888931174 | Spacemaker Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $45.00
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9780688116095 | Reprint edition (Quill, May 1, 1992), cover price $15.00
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. (view table of contents)
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9780226727745, titled "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2000), cover price $21.00
9780679727613, titled "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery.
Hardcover:
9780394490847 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1974, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A record of the personal struggles and determination of a Black tenant farmer born in Alabama in 1885
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