The Adventures of High John the Conqueror by Steve Sanfield
	List Price:   $11.95 Unit Price:   $9.56 You Save:   $2.39 (20%) ISBN-10:   087483774X ISBN-13:   9780874837742 Publisher:   NBN; August House Publishers Category:   Folklore/Fairy Tales Pub. Date:   July 1989 Pages:   140 Format:   Trade Paper Ages:   8 and UP
Subjects
TALES, AMERICAN
Description/Notes
These sixteen stories are much-loved by Sanfield's young audiences and prompted the formation of at least one High John the Conqueror fan club. High John the Conqueror sometimes called simply High John or John is a slave trickster who always outwits Old Master. Much like Greek slave Aesop's animal characters, High John was the subject of subversive narrative, whose mission was to outsmart his oppressors. Tales of High John flourished during slavery, but after emancipation they fell out of circulation and his antics were all but forgotten. A multiple-award-winning anthology of stories from antebellum slave culture.