E.C.L Adams First Edition Nigger to Nigger Provides Sketches and Poems From African Americans Living in the American South, 1928

African American , Southern Literature

First Edition

E.C.L Adams. Nigger to Nigger. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1928. First edition. Original red cloth covered boards with title in black over stylistic black lightning streak. 5 x 7.75 inches. 270 pages. Adams was a white physician living in central South Carolina who studied and recorded African American communities in the American south. The work is a collection of scenes and poems by various characters based off of real people Adams observed. The text captures African American Vernacular English in the South during the early twentieth century. AAVE's unique grammatical, vocabulary and accent features is an important part of American linguistic study drawing parallels to West African languages and English-based Creole languages. Adams work is unique for the trust its subjects placed in him, providing candid accounts of their fears and struggles that made up their daily experiences. "These stories show the influence of slavery," Adams writes in the foreword. "The dread of the overseer-escapes and capture-things that have lived and will always live in the memory of the negro. These memories, combined with superstitions brought from Africa...all make up what may be called the psychology of the negro of these sketches." Shelfwear and soiling to clothbound boards. Cloth torn along spine. Spine cracked with first few pages partially detached. Light foxing to textblock. Otherwise clean. Overall in good condition.

Item #18179

Price: $385.00