The Marengo Jake stories : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton / Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Robert Wilton, 1848-1917.

Contributor:

Mitchell, Jake.

Standardized Title:

De remnant truth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Enslaved persons--Alabama--Fiction.

Enslaved persons.

Auburn (Ala.)--Fiction.

Auburn (Ala.).

Marengo County (Ala.)--Fiction.

Marengo County (Ala.).

Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; 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

Marengo Jake: He Tells About a Famous "Dry Drought"Marengo Jake: An Incident of the Wet Drouth in M'ringer; A Marengo Runaway; Dick and the Devil; A M'ringer Rat Story; Old Time Christmas; A Pig Tale; An Ass in a Lion's Skin; Birmingham Dirt; Looking Backward; A Mule as Was a Mule; An Eating Match; Jake's New House; A Legend: How Clarke Played It on Marengo; Underground Farming; Jake's Senses; Jake Heard From; A Lesson in Natural History; Miss Mary; or, The Value of Education; A Model School; Mosquitoes of Marengo; Lightning; An Abridged Narrative

Notes:

Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8173-8034-5

OCLC:

427562879