Myths, Legends, and Folklore of African-Americans
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales 4.39 avg rating — 619 ratings
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Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore: An Anthology (Norton Paperback) 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore
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Alan Dundes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
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Bess Lomax Hawes
4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings 17. 
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend 3.76 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
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Julius Lester
4.02 avg rating — 845 ratings 20. 
More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, his Friends, Enemies, and Others
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Julius Lester
4.30 avg rating — 61 ratings 21. 
Further Tales of Uncle Remus: The Misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and Other Creatures
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Julius Lester
4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings 
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The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses
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Howard W. Odum
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
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John Bennett
3.71 avg rating — 98 ratings 40. 
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"There are Other Ways to Get Happy": African-American Urban Folklore 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore: 3 volumes
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Anand Prahlad
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 49. 
Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music? (Brown Thrasher Books)
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Rose Thompson
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 50. 
Affrilachian Tales: Folktales from the African-American Appalachian Tradition
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Lyn Ford
4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings 51. 
Beyond the Briar Patch: Affrilachian Folktales, Food, and Folklore
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Lynette Ford
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Afro-American Folk Lore: Told Round Cabin Fires On the Sea Islands of South Carolina 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Headless Haunt: And Other African-American Ghost Stories
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James Haskins
4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South (Brown Thrasher Books)
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John A. Burrison
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Slave Ghost Stories: Tales of Hags, Hants, Ghosts, & Diamondback Rattlers
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Nancy Rhyne
4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
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Art Rosenbaum
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
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Nat Love
3.82 avg rating — 309 ratings 
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture 3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 4.21 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Voodoo Tales As Told Among The Negroes Of The Southwest: Collected From Original Sources
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Mary Alicia Owen
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 72. 
Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Louisiana Folktales: Lupin Bouki and Other Creole Stories in French Dialect and English Translation
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Alcée Fortier
4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings 75. 
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad
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John Garst
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 76. 
Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk Songs 3.67 avg rating — 73 ratings
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J. Mason Brewer, Folklorist and Scholar: His Early Texas Writings
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Milton S. Jordan
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 83. 
The Legend of the Dancing Trees, An African American Folktale
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Kenneth D. Curry
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom
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John W. Roberts
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 87. 
Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams: Afro-American Folklore from the Hampton Institute
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Donald J. Waters
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 88. 
John Henry Rutledge: The Ghost of Hampton Plantation : A Parable
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Nancy Rhyne
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore (Volume 54) (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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As the Old Folks Usta' Say ...: Black Proverbs, Sayings & Folk-Wit
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Corinne Jennings
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 95. 
Crab Boy's Ghost, Gullah Folktales from Murrells Inlet's Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry
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Lynn Michelsohn
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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African American Folklore: An Encyclopedia for Students
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Anand Prahlad
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