Down by the Riverside
Subtitle: A SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVE COMMUNITY (Blacks in the New World)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780252013058
Subjects: Black studies; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Slavery & emancipation; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science / African-American Studies; History - U.S.; African Americans; All Saints Parish; Folklore; History; Slavery; Slaves; South Carolina
First sentence: In 1860 a traveler would not have visited the rice plantations of All Saints Parish in the summer-the height of "the sickly season."