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Description

1. 345 pages; 20 cm

Summary

1. Scarlet Sister Mary is the story of a free-spirited woman's life in the post-Emancipation South [Carolina]. It is unique in its portrayal of an African-American community as capable of independent existence in the South at that time. The culture of the community is portrayed most interestingly and permeates through the religious, spiritual and even medical undertones of story. While Peterkin tells a poetic tale of an independent, strong, rebellious woman ... --Bobby Jasak at Amazon.com.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. African American women -- South Carolina -- Fiction
3. African American teenage girls -- Fiction
4. Communities -- Southern States -- Fiction
5. Gullah women -- Fiction
6. Plantation workers -- South Carolina -- Fiction
7. Segregation -- Southern States -- Fiction
8. African American women
9. Gullah women
10. Plantation workers
11. Communities
12. Segregation
13. Race relations
14. Social conditions
15. African American teenage girls
16. South Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
17. South Carolina -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Fiction
18. Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
19. South Carolina
20. United States
21. Southern States

Genre/Form

1. Historical fiction.
2. Domestic fiction.
3. Fiction.
4. Authors' autographs (Provenance)
5. History.

Call number

1. Sc Fic (Peterkin, J. Scarlet sister Mary)

Awards (note)

1. Pulitzer Prize, 1929

Author

1. Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961, author.

Title

1. Scarlet sister Mary / by Julia Peterkin, author of Black April.

Publisher

1. Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1928]

Copyright date

1. ©1928

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Awards

1. Pulitzer Prize, 1929

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Place of publication

1. United States Indiana Indianapolis, publication place.

LCCN

1. 28024477