All God's Dangers

The Life of Nate Shaw

By: Theodore Rosengarten

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule. At the age of 47, he faced down a crowd of White deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's livestock. His defiance cost him 12 years in prison.This triumphant autobiography, All God's Dangers, assembled from the 84-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, Black and White, and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.

©1974 Theodore Rosengarten and the Estate of Ned Cobb (P)2014 Tantor

Critic reviews

"There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness.... Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's." ( The New York Times)

hearing a voice from a 100 years ago

First hand account of living in the south in the at the start of the 1900s.

As good as a book can be!

Second time I’ve listen to this book. The first time was 25 years ago. Still one of my favorite listens! I was truly said to come to the end of this book .

Very educational and enjoyable.

It took a little while to get used to the deep southern accent used in the narration but the book was well worth the effort.

A Extensive History From a Simple Sharecrooper

The stories are wonderful in understanding what it was truly lie between blacks and whites during the first half of the 20th century. While the audiobook narrator reads the book with an authentic accent can make it hard to listen too. However, give the book time and it honestly makes the book way more enjoyable. An excellent read!

Incomprehensible narration

The narration is done in character with a thick, incomprehensible accent and affect. I would prefer that narrator let the words speak for themselves and save the acting for another venue. In the book, the author notes: "I have not reproduced a southern or black dialect because I did not hear it. I did hear the English language as I know it, spoken with regional inflection and grammar." Unlike this narration, the book is wonderfully comprehensible.