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Title details for All God's Dangers by Theodore Rosengarten - Available

All God's Dangers

The Life of Nate Shaw

by Theodore Rosengarten
Sean Crisden
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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.

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    August 27, 2014

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781494524203
      • File size: 670974 KB
      • Duration: 23:17:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This book is an absolute aural treat. It's the transcription of an oral history told by Nate Shaw, an elderly African-American sharecropper living in the South. While the written words might be interesting, in audio they are absolutely transfixing. Sean Crisden narrates the work with just the right regional accent, cadence, and pacing. Even the ramblings seem natural. It takes several minutes to get used to the strong rural accent--such as dropped "g's," "de" instead of "the," and other regional pronunciations--but after that, it's like listening to a master storyteller spin the tales of his youth and adulthood. R.C.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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