TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Nate
AU  - Rosengarten,Theodore
AU  - Gamarello,Paul
TI  - All God's dangers: the life of Nate Shaw 
SN  - 0679727612 (paperback)
AV  - HD1478.U6 S5 1989
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Shaw, Nate.
KW  - Sharecropping
KW  - History
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes index; Youth -- Deeds -- Prison -- Revelation
N2  - 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 reminiscences, is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, black and white, and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about
ER  -