David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“De rabbit is de slickest o’ all de
animals de Lawd” is cited in Lawrence
Levine’s Black Culture and Black
Consciousness: Afro-American Folk
Thought from Slavery to Freedom
(Oxford University Press, 2007), 107.
Also from Levine are: “The rabbit, like
the slaves who wove tales about him,”
page 112; “painfully realistic stories,”
page 115; and “The records left by
nineteenth-century observers of
slavery,” page 122. The story of the
Terrapin is on page 115.
“I’m not hard to get along with,
dahlin’s” is from a Wyatt Walker
interview with John Britton that is part
of the Civil Rights Documentation