Friday, May 17, 2019

Resource: Lay My Burden Down

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

Author: B. A. Botkin
Year: 1945
Location: personal library


Table of Contents:

I have just listed here titles relevant to my project. There are many more wonderful stories and anecdotes in this book!

Foolishg Master
Catching John
It was a Possum a While Ago
Pig-Ooie, Pig
Malitis
The Boots That Wouldn't Come Off
I Come to Tell Them I Couldn't Come
Master Pumpkin
What the Pass Said
Polly Parrot
The Terrapin that Could Talk
Turn the Tray Around
I Come from Above, where All is Love
Laying Down and Getting Up
Cussing Master
Joke: Putting Hand under Old Mistress' Dress
The Promised Land
Big Corn
They Were Men in Those Days
Set-down Hogs
Bad Man Yell
Why the Boll Weevil Came
The Brown Bear and the Pickaninny
Nicodemus and the Sycamore Tree
Why Partridges Can't Fly over Trees
The Sheep and the Goats
The Cook and the Dog
You Just Can't Get Away from What the Lord Said

I'm Being Took
Breaking the Balk
The Partridge and the Fox
The Tortoise and the Rabbit
Fatal Imitation
Barnyard Talk
What the Fowl Said
What the Birds Said
What the Hounds Said



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