Singing the master : the emergence of African American culture in the plantation south / Roger D. Abrahams.
In the American South before the Civil War, a harvest celebration developed surrounding the shucking of the corn each autumn. This event brought together both slave and master, with the slaves encouraged to perform. Thanks to the reports of visitors and foreigners, the corn-shucking ceremony became...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1992]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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