All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Autobiography
By: Nate Shaw
Date: 1974
Source: Rosengarten, Theodore. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Vintage Press, 1974.
About the Author: Nate Shaw (1885–1973) was an African American sharecropper who struggled to earn a living under the burden of legal and economic arrangements that privileged white land owners over African American tenant farmers. Shaw joined the Alabama Sharecroppers' Union in the early 1930s, and served twelve years in prison for defying local law officers' efforts to confiscate a fellow union member's livestock. Upon release from prison in 1945, Shaw continued to farm the land not far from where he was born.
Introduction
After the Civil War (1861–1865), white and black southerners faced the challenge of redefining agrarian life that had long rested upon the institution of slavery. Struggles between southern...
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