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The Marengo Jake stories : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton /
Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
[2007]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character called ""Marengo Jake."" Probably originally from Virginia, Jake Mitchell was brought to the Drake Plantation in Marengo county as a boy in the 1850's. After the Civil War, th |
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| Notas: | Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780817380342 0817380345 0817354743 9780817354749 |