{"product_id":"my-remembers-a-black-sharecroppers-recollections-of-the-depression-9781574410679","title":"My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression","description":"In 1929, near Plano, Texas, Eddie Stimpson Jr., weighing 15-1\/2 pounds, was born to a 19-year-old father and a 15-year-old mother. The boy, his two sisters and mother all \"grew up together,\" with the father sharecropping along the old Preston Road, the route used by many freedmen trying to escape Texas after the Civil War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis childhood was void of luxuries, but full of country pleasures. The editors have retained the simplicity of Stimpson's folk speech and spelling patterns, allowing the good-natured humility and wisdom of his personality to shine through the narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe details of ordinary family life and community survival include descriptions of cooking, farming, gambling, visiting, playing, doctoring, hunting, bootlegging, and picking cotton, as well as going to school, to church, to funerals, to weddings, to Juneteenth celebrations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book will be of extraordinary value to folklorists, historians, sociologists, and anyone enjoying a good story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574410679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.09w x 0.55d","brand":"Eddie Stimpson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660254015644,"sku":"9781574410679","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7dd18054-e6f6-4e29-a4b1-2a826f4281a2.jpg?v=1603896420","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-remembers-a-black-sharecroppers-recollections-of-the-depression-9781574410679","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}