@book{464,
  keywords = {Muslims, Black Americans, Protestants},
  author = {John Edgar Wideman},
  title = {Damballah},
  abstract = {Twelve interwoven stories that trace the author’s ancestors from the Civil War to the 1960s. <em>The New York Times</em> writes, “In these winding, lyrical tales—told in the voices of different narrators—we meet a diverse cast; their lineage can be traced back to Sybela Owens, a slave, who, upon learning that his father intended to sell Sybela, fled to Homewood in the 1840s with his slave mistress and their children.”},
  year = {1981},
  journal = {Homewood trilogy, 1/3},
  pages = {205 p.},
  publisher = {Avon Books},
  address = {New York},
  language = {English},
}