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Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story...
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"With revealing -- indeed surprising -- particulars, and with a moving clarity and honesty, the great and highly controversial behaviorist, author of Beyond Freedom and Dignity and Walden Two, takes us into the flow of his own life form his small town American boyhood through his first tentative movements, in his early twenties, toward his life work. His story begins in the small railroading town of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, in the last golden decade...
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