Nate Shaw\'s father was born under slavery.
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..
His defiance cost him twelve years in prison.
At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor\'s crop.
At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour.
Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler.
Nate Shaw\'s father was born under slavery