Coming through
Subtitle: voices of a South Carolina Gullah community from WPA oral histories
By: collected by Genevieve W. Chandler ; edited by Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough ; foreword by Charles W. Joyner.
Contributors: Chandler, Genevieve W., 1890-1980.; Mills, Kincaid, 1969-; Peterkin, Genevieve C. 1928-; McCollough, Aaron.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781570037214
Subjects: African Americans -- Waccamaw River Valley (N.C. and S.C.) -- Interviews; Gullahs -- Waccamaw River Valley (N.C. and S.C.) -- Interviews; Freedmen -- Waccamaw River Valley (N.C. and S.C.) -- Interviews; African Americans -- South Carolina -- Interviews; Gullahs -- South Carolina -- Interviews; Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Interviews; Community life -- Waccamaw River Valley (N.C. and S.C.) -- History -- Anecdotes; Oral history -- Waccamaw River Valley (N.C. and S.C.); Waccamaw River Valley (N.C. and S.C.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes; South Carolina -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Genres: Interviews; Anecdotes; Biography
Description: Coming Through marks the first complete publication of these interviews with former slaves and their descendants living in the Waccamaw Neck region of South Carolina as collected by Genevieve W. Chandler as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project. Between 1936 and 1938 Chandler interviewed more than one hundred individuals in and around All Saints Parish, a portion of Horry and Georgetown counties located between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean. Her subjects spoke freely with her on topics ranging from slave punishment to folk medicine, from conditions in the Jim Crow South to the exploits of Brer Rabbit. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Something more precious: Genevieve Willcox Chandler and Carolina folk culture; title: Welcome Bees; title: Will Bees; title: Hagar Brown; title: Louisa Brown; title: Sam Brown; title: Margaret Bryant (granddaughter); title: Margaret Bryant (grandmother); title: Rev. Albert and Ella Carolina; title: Martha Cox; title: Will Deas; title: Ellen Godfrey; title: Matthew Grant; title: Loney "Noonie" Heywood; title: Mariah Heywood; title: Monday Samson Holmes; title: Ben and Stella Horry; title: Bobbitt Horry; title: Alex Johnson; title: Andrew Keith; title: Addie Knox; title: Lillie Knox; title: Minnie Ladson Knox; title: Richard Knox; title: Thelma Knox; title: Zackie Knox; title: Cinchy Lance; title: Gabe Lance; title: Mike Maybank; title: Jim Moody; title: William Oliver; title: Maude Esther Lee Pickett; title: Reverend Aaron Pinnacle; title: Fred Poinsette; title: Carrie Pyatt; title: Hackless Riley; title: Sabe Rutledge; title: John Simmons; title: Rev. Cato Singleton; title: Claude Singleton; title: George Kato Singleton; title: Boss Skinner; title: Ella Small; title: Lewis Small; title: Liza Brown Small; title: Rebecca Washington; title: Lula White; title: Willis Williams; title: Martha Wright; title: Memo from Mabel Montgomery; title: Memo from Folklore Dept.; title: Memos from Henry Alsberg; title: Maps: Murrells Inlet and Waccamaw Neck, c. 1936; title: Gullah communities, churches and homes, c. 1936; title: White plantations, homes and churches, c. 1936.