Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 345 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780252053900
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0252053907
Series Statement:
Blacks in the New World
Content:
"In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this slave community, and many others like it, the slaves created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances. From the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of census and probate records, and above all from slave folklore and oral history, Joyner has recovered an entire society and its way of life. His careful reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people who endured in the face of adversity."--The publisher's description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-334) and index
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"Down by the riverside" -- "All dem rice field" -- "Sit at the welcome table" -- "Off times" -- "Come by here, Lord" -- "All de bes' story" -- Gullah: A Creole language -- "My time up with you."
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0252010582
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252010583
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Joyner, Charles W Down by the riverside Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1984
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
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