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, the Drake...
Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of a...
A Poetic Journey is a memoir, there are a variety a poems in this book and each one tells a story of my life's journeys. The poetry in this book is powerful; I am very outspoken when I relay my stories in a creative light. My brother Jake Mitchell is the co-author, he has several of his original pieces in this memoir including "A Lady Named Hope" that won him a feature in an upcoming project.
A Poetic Journey is a memoir, there are a variety a poems in this book and each one tells a story of my life's journeys. The poetry in this book is po...
