Racehoss
Big Emma's Boy
Published on 22. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-5011-8398-0 (ISBN)
Description
"A timeless classic" (San Antonio Express-News) about a black man who spent seventeen years on a brutal Texas prison plantation and underwent a remarkable transformation. First published in 1984, Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy is Albert Race Sample's "unforgettable" (The Dallas Morning News) tale of resilience, revelation, and redemption. From being raised by a hard-drinking black prostitute who refused to let her mixed-race son call her Mama to seventeen years of incarceration, many of them spent picking cotton in an all-black prison plantation known as the "burnin' hell," to a profound spiritual awakening in solitary confinement and a new life, Sample's remarkable experiences are shocking, vital, and moving. With new stories that had been edited out of the first edition, a foreword by Texas attorney and writer David R. Dow, and an afterword by Sample's widow, Carol, this new edition of Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy offers a more complete picture of this extraordinary time in America's recent past
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5011-8398-0 (9781501183980)
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A multi-recidivist and after seventeen years of incarceration, Albert Race Sample, author of Racehoss: Big Emma’s Boy, became the first ex-convict in Texas to work out of the Office of the Governor, to serve as a probation officer for Travis County, and to serve on the staff of the State Bar of Texas. He was granted a full pardon and restoration of all civil rights in 1976. The recipient of numerous humanitarian awards and the Outstanding Crime Prevention Citizen of Texas Award, Sample resided in Austin with his wife, Carol, until his passing in 2005.