American Negro Folktales Henty has a wonderful talent

Henty has a wonderful talent for combining history and fiction for children

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this volume is essential reading for scholars and students of art and will be treasured by artists and art lovers alike

American Negro Folktales Henty has a wonderful talentA preacher battles a bear, a mother returns from the dead, and a clever servant conducts a Big Feet Contest in this rich anthology of African American folklore. Scores of humorous and harrowing stories, collected during the mid twentieth century, tell of talking animals, ghosts, devils, and saints. The first part of the book provides a setting for the fables, in which folklorist Richard M. Dorson discusses their origins and the artistry of