Voodoo Tales as Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest.
New York: Putnam, 1893. 310 pp. Hardcover in original binding. FIRST EDITION. Not Ex-Lib. SIGNED and inscribed by author on ffep.
Mary Alicia Owens was a 19th-century American author best-known for her works on culture of black Americans and slaves in Missouri. Her best work was Old Rabbit, the Voodoo and other Sorcerers a collection of African-American folk tales which was written in traditional, albeit stereotypical, Southern black dialect. Item #101785
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