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Down by the riverside : a South Carolina slave community / Charles Joyner.
- Title
- Down by the riverside : a South Carolina slave community / Charles Joyner.
- Author
- Joyner, Charles W.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- 345 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Folklore
- Enslaved persons > South Carolina > All Saints Parish > Folklore
- History
- Sea Islands Creole dialect
- Plantation life > South Carolina > All Saints Parish > History
- Folklore > South Carolina > All Saints Parish
- All Saints Parish (S.C.) > Social life and customs
- African Americans > South Carolina > All Saints Parish > Folklore
- Slavery > South Carolina > All Saints Parish > History
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction to the 25th anniversary edition -- Prologue -- "Doen by the riverside" -- "All dem rice field" -- "Sit at the welcome table" -- "Off times" -- Come by here, Lord" -- "All de bes' story" -- Gullah : a Creole language -- "My time up with you".
- ISBN
- 9780252076831 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009009566
- OCLC
- 312730595
- SCSB-11547490
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library