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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825447003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-25308-9

9786613253088

0-8203-4274-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Altri autori (Persone)

MorganPhilip D. <1949->

Disciplina

305.896/073075

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.