In the 1830s, young Frankie Silver was tried and hung for killing her husband with an axe and burning the body in their home in the N.C. mountains. Now, 170 years later, the story still has a grip on the community and in the wider world, where it has been kept alive by a ballad, local legends, fiction, drama, and news accounts. Using the Silver case, this book examines the interplay between folklore and history.
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In the 1830s, young Frankie Silver was tried and hung for killing her husband with an axe and burning the body in their home in the N.C. mountains. Now, 170 years later, the story still has a grip on the community and in the wider world, where it has been kept alive by a ballad, local legends, fiction, drama, and news accounts. Using the Silver case, this book examines the interplay between folklore and history.
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Seller's Description:
Charles Farrell (photographs) Very Good in Good jacket. Children / Adventure. 4to. 10th Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to with 121pages. The book is in very good condition with some very slight-faint marks to cover. Previous owner's name at the top of the front free end paper. Interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition with some shelf wear, rubbing and some small tears to edges, $4.95 price on front flap of jacket. Some faint discoloration to back of dj. Pictures available upon request. Profusely illustrated. "...this book was inspired when a little black boy asked Ms. Sharpe why there weren't any children books for colored kids. She started researching and found there weren't any books about colored children and proceeded to make history by writing one of the first of it's kind....This is the story of a little black boy, told for children and illustrated with over fifty photographs showing Tobe and his brothers and sisters in all the varied activities of a small southern farm." Blue Cloth w/Gold text. DJ Gray-Black-Blue spine/ White text. #034192.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Tenth printing. Photographs by Charles Farrell. Faint discoloration on rear hinge else about fine in fine dustwrapper. Wonderful children's book of black life in the rural south illustrated with great photographs, reprinted many times.
