Book
RacehossAlbert Sample

Racehoss

2018416 pages
No counted ratings yet
3 editions
Nonfiction

Track this book

You choose which shelves are public. Progress and read dates stay yours.
Sign in

About

"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…

Add to list

Reviews

No reviews yet. Sign in to write the first.

Rating integrity

Healthy
Counted ratings come from accounts older than 7 days and were made on or after publication. Finished readers weigh ×1.0. Readers who have not finished yet weigh ×0.5. Did-not-finish ratings are shown but not counted.

Editions

3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2018
    Scribner · 416 pages · 9781501183980
  • Other · English · 2018
    Scribner · 399 pages · 9781501183973
  • Other · English · 2018
    Scribner · 416 pages · 9781501183997
Criminals, biographyTexas, biographyPrisons, united statesCriminalsBiographyAfrican American prisonersPrisonsCase studies