Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun

Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun: Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man is a collection of pseudo-African American folktales written by author Roark Bradford and published in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1928. It was compared to the tales about Uncle Remus and had moderate success, the Chicago Post called it "howlingly funny".^[1] Poet Sterling Allen Brown criticized its farcical depiction of African-American culture and religion.^[1]

Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun: Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man

Author	Roark Bradford
Illustrator	A. B. Walker
Language	English
Subject	Religion, dogma
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Publication date	1928
Publication place	United Kingdom United States
Media type	Print: Hardcover
Pages	264 pp (first edition)
OCLC	23314714

The book was soon adapted to a play The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly which won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.^[2] This was later made into the 1936 movie The Green Pastures.

Black actor Mantan Moreland adapted it for Caedmon Records based on material in the book.^[1]