From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore
Subtitle: An Anthology
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780393324976
First sentence: Stripped of family and friends, every possible belonging, even language, name, and religion, the kidnapped Africans did manage to smuggle a few revered comrades aboard the slave ships that transported them to America: Brer Rabbit and Brer Anancy, whom Guyanese author A. J. Seymour called "the unregistered passenger[s] of the Middle Passage."