Edward C. L. Adams,Robert G. O'Meally's Tales of the Congaree PDF

By Edward C. L. Adams,Robert G. O'Meally

This quantity brings again into print a extraordinary list of black existence within the Nineteen Twenties, chronicled via Edward C.L. Adams, a white health care professional from the realm round the Congaree River in crucial South Carolina. It reproduces Adams's significant works, Congaree Sketches (1927) and Nigger to Nigger (1928), collections of stories, poems, and dialogues from blacks who labored his land, offered within the black vernacular language. they're supplemented right here by way of a play, Potee's Gal, and a few short sketches of negative whites.

What units Adams's stories except different such collections is the willingness of his black informants to percentage with him not just their tales of rabbits and "hants" but in addition their emotions on such taboo topics as lynchings, Jim Crow courts, and chain gangs. Adams retells those stories as though the blacks in them have been conversing in basic terms between themselves. Whites don't look in those works, other than as infrequent historical past figures and subject matters of dialog by means of Tad, Scip, and different black storytellers. As Tad says, "We talkin' to we."

That Adams was once accepted to listen to such stories in any respect is a part of the secret that Robert O'Meally explains in his advent. the major to the secret is Adams's skill -- in his existence, as in his works -- to put on either black and white mask. He remained a well-placed member of white society while that he used to be anything of a maverick inside it. His black informants consequently observed him not just as an individual extra likeable and reliable than so much whites but in addition as a person who used to be able to aid them indirectly if he understood extra approximately their lives.

As a author, O'Meally indicates, Adams used to be now not easily an target recorder of folklore. by means of wearing a black masks, Adams was once in a position to venture attitudes and values that the majority whites of his position and time might have disavowed. accordingly, his stories have a complexity and richness that lead them to an actual witness to the black adventure in addition to an enduring contribution to American letters.

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