Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the World was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves.
Abrahams (1933-2017) was the Hum Rosen Professor of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, president of the American Folklore Society, and the author of many books, monographs, and articles on African American, Creole, Caribbean, and American culture..
With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library About the Author: ROGER D.
They include Stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers\' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean.
Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the World was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves
