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"A timeless classic" ( San Antonio Express-News ), reissued with a new foreword, afterword, and ten percent more material 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. Born in 1930, the mixed-race son of a hard-drinking black prostitute and a white cotton broker, Sample was raised in the Jim Crow South by an abusive mother who refused to let her son—who could pass for white—call her Mama. He watched for the police while she worked, whether as a prostitute, bootlegger, or running the best dice game in town. He loved his mother deeply but could no longer take her abuse and ran away from home at the age of twelve. In his early twenties, Sample was arrested for burglary, robbery, and robbery by assault and was sentenced to nearly twenty years in the Texas prison system in the 1950s and 60s. His light complexion made him stand out in the all-black prison plantation known as the "burnin' hell," where he and over four hundred prisoners picked cotto

Who reads Racehoss : Big Emma's Boy?

Author

Albert Sample, Carol Sample, David R. Dow

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501183980

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Memoir, Social Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (74 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14