"Ruby Pickens Tartt was a sensitive white woman living in Sumter County, Alabama, who devoted much of her long life (1880-1974) to collecting black folktales, songs, and folklore from the countryside. Two-thirds of the book reproduces examples of her collected stories, life histories, and slave narratives." - Journal of Southern History

"Ruby Pickens Tartt was a sensitive white woman living in Sumter County, Alabama, who devoted much of her long life (1880-1974) to collecting black folktales, songs, and folklore from the countryside. Two-thirds of the book reproduces examples of her collected stories, life histories, and slave narratives." - Journal of Southern History

"Ruby Pickens Tartt was a sensitive white woman living in Sumter County, Alabama, who devoted much of her long life (1880-1974) to collecting black folktales, songs, and folklore from the countryside. Two-thirds of the book reproduces examples of her collected stories, life histories, and slave narratives." - Journal of Southern History