03584nam 2200625Ia 450 991045472560332120200520144314.00-8173-8034-5(CKB)1000000000774976(EBL)454471(OCoLC)427562879(SSID)ssj0000197736(PQKBManifestationID)11185714(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197736(PQKBWorkID)10168693(PQKB)11338066(MiAaPQ)EBC454471(MdBmJHUP)muse8689(Au-PeEL)EBL454471(CaPaEBR)ebr10309004(EXLCZ)99100000000077497620080429d2007 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Marengo Jake stories[electronic resource] the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton /Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton BurtonTuscaloosa, AL University of Alabama Press20071 online resource (257 p.)Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.0-8173-5474-3 Includes bibliographical references.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 ClevelandMarengo 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 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, thAfrican AmericansFictionSlavesAlabamaFictionAuburn (Ala.)FictionMarengo County (Ala.)FictionAlabamaSocial life and customs19th centuryFictionElectronic books.African AmericansSlaves813.4813/.4Burton Robert Wilton1848-1917.1028924Mitchell Jake1028925MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454725603321The Marengo Jake stories2445103UNINA