African American life in the Georgia lowcountry
Subtitle: the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee
By: edited by Philip Morgan
Contributors: Georgia Humanities Council
Series: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900; Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Publisher: University of Georgia Press; In association with the Georgia Humanities Council
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780820330648
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lowcountry Georgia and the early modern Atlantic world, 1733-ca. 1820 / Philip Morgan; title: "High notions of their liberty": women of color and the American Revolution in Lowcountry Georgia and South Carolina, 1765-1783 / Betty Wood; title: "I began to feel the happiness of liberty, of which I knew nothing before": eighteenth-century black accounts of the Lowcountry / Vincent Carretta; title: Africans, culture, and Islam in the Lowcountry / Michael A. Gomez; title: "They shun the scrutiny of white men": reports on religion from the Georgia Louwcountry and West Africa, 1834-1850 / Erskine Clarke; title: Reclaiming the Gullah-Geechee past : archaeology of slavery in Coastal Georgia / Theresa A. Singleton; title: A spirit of enterprise : the African American challenge to the Confederate project in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones; title: "The great cry of people is land!" Black settlement and community development on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 1865-1900 / Allison Dorsey; title: Summoning the ancestors : the flying Africans' story and its enduring legacy / Timothy Powell; title: A sense of self and place : unmasking my Gullah Cultural Heritage / Emory S. Campbell.