Title: A Portion of Fault
Subtitle: A Sea Island Prayer After The Civil War
Description: This short-form, non-fiction work of 20 pages includes a new transcript of a 1932 Gullah prayer recorded by Lorenzo Dow Turner, archived in the Library of Congress online; describes features of the Gullah language and faith view, lists beatific visions in several Gullah spirituals and shares key Gullah folktales. The work highlights many first person voices.

It briefly surveys a family's plantation holdings, the era's cultural attitudes, enslaved religious life in urban Charleston, and features FSA photographs by Marion Post Wolcott and Dorothea Lange from the era of Turner's recording, which gives the work its title.
Subjects: Gullah, faith, religion, slavery, spirituals, folktales, WPA narratives, St. Michael's Church, Library of Congress
Places: Charleston, South Carolina, St. Helena's Island, Edisto Island
People: Howard Thurman, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Sterling A. Brown
Time periods: 1700-1970