When roots die
Subtitle: endangered traditions on the Sea Islands
By: Patricia Jones-Jackson.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Sea Islands Creole dialect.; African Americans -- Sea Islands -- Social life and customs.; Sea Islands -- Social life and customs.
Description: This book celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of "Brer Rabbit," records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [179]-183.
Includes index.