African American life in the Georgia lowcountry [electronic resource] : the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee / edited by Philip Morgan.

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Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press : In association with the Georgia Humanities Council, c2010.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (372 p.)

Subjects:

African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- History.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- Religion.
Gullahs -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- History.
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- History.
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Social conditions.
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Religious life and customs.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Contents:

Lowcountry Georgia and the early modern Atlantic world, 1733-ca. 1820 / Philip Morgan
"High notions of their liberty": women of color and the American Revolution in Lowcountry Georgia and South Carolina, 1765-1783 / Betty Wood
"I began to feel the happiness of liberty, of which I knew nothing before": eighteenth-century black accounts of the Lowcountry / Vincent Carretta
Africans, culture, and Islam in the Lowcountry / Michael A. Gomez
"They shun the scrutiny of white men": reports on religion from the Georgia Louwcountry and West Africa, 1834-1850 / Erskine Clarke
Reclaiming the Gullah-Geechee past : archaeology of slavery in Coastal Georgia / Theresa A. Singleton
A spirit of enterprise : the African American challenge to the Confederate project in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones
"The great cry of people is land!" Black settlement and community development on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 1865-1900 / Allison Dorsey
Summoning the ancestors : the flying Africans' story and its enduring legacy / Timothy Powell
A sense of self and place : unmasking my Gullah Cultural Heritage / Emory S. Campbell.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
Georgia Humanities Council.

ISBN:

1-283-25308-9
9786613253088
0-8203-4274-2

OCLC:

753324223

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