African American life in the Georgia lowcountry the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee / edited by Philip Morgan.

Other author Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
Other author Georgia Humanities Council.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAthens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press : In association with the Georgia Humanities Council,
Descriptionxi, 311 p., [46] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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SeriesRace in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. ^A1030518
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2009022714
ISBN9780820330648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0820330647 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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