Ain't you got a right to the tree of life?
Subtitle: the people of Johns Island, South Carolina--their faces, their words, and their songs
By: recorded and edited by Guy and Candie Carawan ; photographs by Robert Yellin ; music transcribed by Ethel Raim.
Contributors: Carawan, Candie.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed. / new photographs by Ida Berman, Gary Hamilton, and others ; preface by Charles Joyner ; afterword by Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island -- Social life and customs.; African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island -- Music.; Folk music -- South Carolina -- Johns Island.; Folk songs, English -- South Carolina -- Johns Island.; Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Social life and customs.
Description: This book presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 237-239.
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