TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton,Robert Wilton
AU  - Mitchell,Jake
TI  - The Marengo Jake stories: the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton 
SN  - 9780817380342
AV  - PS1229.B62 D4 2007eb
U1  - 813/.4 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Tuscaloosa, Ala.
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Esclaves
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Auburn (Ala.)
KW  - Marengo County (Ala.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Auburn
KW  - Marengo County
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991; Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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
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