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ISBN: 0585090157 9780585090153 0791415074 0791415082 0791498107 Year: 1993 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

The Marengo Jake stories : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton
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ISBN: 0817380345 9780817380342 0817354743 9780817354749 9780817354749 Year: 2007 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press,

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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

De remnant truth : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton
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ISBN: 0585176779 9780585176772 0817305157 9780817305154 Year: 1991 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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