Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
341
Language
English
Published
May 5, 1992
Publisher
Pantheon
ISBN-10
0394555910
ISBN-13
9780394555911
Description
A controversial and radical interpretation of the most celebrated event on the Southern plantation: the corn-shucking ceremony. Relying on written accounts and oral histories of former slaves, Abrahams reconstructs this event and shows how the interaction of whites and blacks was adapted and imitated by whites in minstrel and vaudeville shows.