All Gods Dangers V02

by Theodore Rosengarten

Part Two Of Two Parts "I've had my eyes open and my ears. What I've seen I've seen, and what I've heard I've heard. God knows I won't jump back from tellin' what I know." Meet Nate Shaw, a cotton farmer, born in Alabama in 1885. Although his parents were slaves, Shaw felt free. He felt equal to anyone, and listening to his amazing life, there is no doubt of his intelligence and originality. Imagine his frustrations, wrapped in a black skin in conservative rural Alabama. For a gifted black, time must have stood still. "Theodore Rosengarten found a black Homer, able to tell his odyssey with awesome intellectual power, with passion, with an almost frightening power of memory. We have a black Faulkner...Nate Shaw strides directly off the page and into our consciousness, a living presence...speaking history." (The New York Times)

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Reviews

[Saad · Rating 4 out of 5]

How this book isn't better known, I have no clue. Yes, it is not a classically researched biography, but it is a most vivid memoir and oral history of a world most of us know nothing about.

[Meghan Fidler · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the voice of an elder black man, Nate Shaw, the book is a memoir of life as a black tenant farmer. The narrative provides no sifting of life: from quarrels with neighbors, dealings with white folks, and domination by family, the book provides a glimpse into many forgotten histories.