The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton
by
Jake Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various...