Originally published: New York : Farrar and Rinehart, 1934.
Summary
The author's travels and impressions of Alabama.
Contents
Part I : Tuscaloosa nights. I arrive -- Tuscaloosa -- Black rituals -- Flaming cross -- Part II : In the red hills. Ladies bow, gents know how -- All-day singing -- Footwashing -- Sweet William came from the western states -- Court week -- Birmingham -- Part III : Black belt. Greene County rally -- Big house -- Plaisant Pays de France -- Front gallery -- The Tombigbee outlaws -- God in the canebrake -- White man's nigger : I -- Miss Polly -- Brer Rabbit mutiplies -- Lynching -- Part IV : Conjure country. Two-toe Tom -- A good man to work for -- Processional -- White man's nigger : II -- Conjure woman -- Reminiscence -- Part V : Mobile and the bayou country. Mobile -- Coq d'Inde -- Dauphin Island -- Part VI : Cajan. Citronelle -- The hell-raisin' -- Twilight of the races.
