These Are Our Lives
eBook - ePub

These Are Our Lives

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

These Are Our Lives

About this book

Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South--farm laborers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations--and those on relief.

Originally published 1939.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. On the Farm
  7. You’re Gonna Have Lace Curtains
  8. Tore Up and a-Movin’
  9. Get Out and Hoe
  10. Some Sort o’ How
  11. I Has a Garden
  12. Five Year Lease
  13. Last Chance to Own a Farm
  14. We Makes Plenty
  15. Lived Too Long
  16. I Saved My Money
  17. Marsh Taylor, Landlord
  18. In Mill Village and Factory
  19. A Day at Kate Brumby’s House
  20. Grease Monkey to Knitter
  21. I’d Take the Mill Anytime
  22. Old Man Dobbin and His Crowd
  23. A Little Amusemint
  24. Solid Time
  25. It’s a Christian Factory
  26. I’d Rather Die
  27. Didn’t Keep a Penny
  28. In Service Occupations
  29. Plow Beams for Pills
  30. Business Is a Pleasure
  31. Gold Tooth
  32. On the Road to Sheriff
  33. . . . And Costs
  34. Trucker and Builder
  35. The Grand Ways
  36. I Can Read and I Can Write
  37. Snappy Feeding
  38. Prayer Done the Work
  39. Easier Ways
  40. On Relief
  41. Them That Needs
  42. Till the River Rises
  43. I Couldn’t Be What I Wanted to Be
  44. Weary Willie
  45. Instructions to Writers