the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Alabama Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2007]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
GENERAL NOTES
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Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction; A Note on the Texts; The "Marengo Jake" Stories; M'renger; M'reener: How Uncle Jake Interviewed a "High-Drawin'" Ram; Marengo Mud: Old Jake's Story of the Bottomless Slough; Three Little Boys and Three Little Fishes; Marengo Jake Plays Another Trick on the Three Boys; Seismic Phenomena -- Explained by a Marengo Scientist; Christmas in Marengo; Jake and Miss Emmer; Tripping Jake; The Marengo Prestidigitator; Marengo Jake: A Romance of Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds; Jake Cornered; A True Story: How Marengo Jake Elected Cleveland.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Marengo Jake stories.
International Standard Book Number
0817354743
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
De remnant truth
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African Americans, Fiction.
Slaves-- Alabama, Fiction.
African Americans.
Manners and customs.
Slaves.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Alabama, Social life and customs, 19th century, Fiction.