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...

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1. Verfasser: Burton, Robert Wilton, 1848-1917
Weitere Verfasser: Mitchell, Jake
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2007]
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780817380342
0817380345
0817354743
9780817354749

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