Emily M’s Reviews > The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be > Status Update

Read this years ago when I was in high school and, given the title, I forgot the first third was fully human stories - starting off pretty dark, too, with ‘A slave’s dangerous courtship.’ Dangerous because the sons of his girlfriend’s master wanted her for themselves and kept trying to kill Simon (the guy who told Faulkner these stories - so at least you know from the start he survived!)