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" The Marengo Jake stories : "
Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton.
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BL
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947361
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b701731
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| Uniform Title
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De remnant truth
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| Main Entry
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Burton, Robert Wilton,1848-1917.
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The Marengo Jake stories : : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton /\ Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton.
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| Publication Statement
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :: University of Alabama Press,, [2007]
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1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
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0817354743
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: 0817380345
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: 9780817354749
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: 9780817380342
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9780817354749
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Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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African Americans, Fiction.
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Slaves-- Alabama, Fiction.
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African Americans.
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Manners and customs.
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Slaves.
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Alabama, Social life and customs, 19th century, Fiction.
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Auburn (Ala.), Fiction.
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Marengo County (Ala.), Fiction.
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Alabama, Auburn.
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Alabama, Marengo County.
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Alabama.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.4
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PS1229.B62D4 2007eb
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Mitchell, Jake.
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