Down by the riverside
Subtitle: a South Carolina slave community
By: Charles Joyner.
Series: Blacks in the new world; Blacks in the New World
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Slavery -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- History.; African Americans -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- Folklore.; Slaves -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- Folklore.; Folklore -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish.; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- History.; Sea Island Creole dialect.; All Saints Parish (S.C.) -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Folklore.
Description: "In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this slave community, and many others like it, the slaves created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances. From the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of census and probate records, and above all from slave folklore and oral history, Joyner has recovered an entire society and its way of life. His careful reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people who endured in the face of adversity." -- From the publisher's description.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 244-334.