Author:
Shaw, Nate, author.
Edition Statement:Second Vintage Books edition.
ImprintNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.
Descriptionxxv, 561, xiii pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Note:Includes index.
Note:"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1974."--Title page verso.
Note:Youth -- Deeds -- Prison -- Revelation.
Note:"Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an 'over-average' man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people--and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about."--Publisher description.
