Wyniki wyszukiwania:

Salt Sack and the Cowboy is the second in a series of cowboy poetry volumes by Chuck Murphy. The first, Christ and the Cowboy features humorous and anecdotal poetry of a spiritual nature. Salt Sack and the Cowboy represents Chuck's body of work that is not necessarily spiritual, but tells of the life of a cowboy in a way that is real, humorous, and frankly, a little salty.

Many defenders of slavery have maintained that the slaves in Texas were well-treated and happy, but as a former slave remarked, "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is--'tis he who has endured." Here are the tales of those who have endured--a collection of the voices of the ex- slaves themselves, recalling what their lives were like under slavery. Over one hundred former slaves describe their slavemasters, their work, runaway slaves, their recollections of the Civil War and, finally, the coming of freedom. The narratives were collected by WPA interviewers in...