LEADER 05272nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910971481803321 005 20251117091335.0 010 $a1-283-25308-9 010 $a9786613253088 010 $a0-8203-4274-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000052248 035 $a(OCoLC)753324223 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496064 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542926 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11356947 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542926 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10511569 035 $a(PQKB)10330503 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17846 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039045 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496064 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL325308 035 $a(Perlego)839271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039045 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000052248 100 $a20090605d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAfrican American life in the Georgia lowcountry $ethe Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee /$fedited by Philip Morgan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ga. $cUniversity of Georgia Press $cIn association with the Georgia Humanities Council$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 225 1 $aRace in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8203-4307-2 311 08$a0-8203-3064-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLowcountry 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. 330 8 $aThe lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants-people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region's physical and cultural remoteness helps to preserve the venerable ways of its black inhabitants, but it can also marginalize the vital place of lowcountry blacks in the Atlantic World. The essays, which range in coverage from the founding of the Georgia colony in the early 1700s through the present era, explore a range of topics, all within the larger context of the Atlantic world. Included are essays on the double-edged freedom that the American Revolution made possible to black women, the lowcountry as site of the largest gathering of African Muslims in early North America, and the coexisting worlds of Christianity and conjuring in coastal Georgia and the links (with variations) to African practices. A number of fascinating, memorable characters emerge, among them the defiant Mustapha Shaw, who felt entitled to land on Ossabaw Island and resisted its seizure by whites only to become embroiled in struggles with other blacks; Betty, the slave woman who, in the spirit of the American Revolution, presented a "list of grievances" to her master; and S'Quash, the Arabic-speaking Muslim who arrived on one of the last legal transatlantic slavers and became a head man on a North Carolina plantation. Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council. 410 0$aRace in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zGeorgia$zAtlantic Coast$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$zGeorgia$zAtlantic Coast$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican Americans$zGeorgia$zAtlantic Coast$xReligion 606 $aGullahs$zGeorgia$zAtlantic Coast$xHistory 607 $aAtlantic Coast (Ga.)$xHistory 607 $aAtlantic Coast (Ga.)$xSocial conditions 607 $aAtlantic Coast (Ga.)$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xReligion. 615 0$aGullahs$xHistory. 676 $a305.896/073075 701 $aMorgan$b Philip D.$f1949-$0854141 712 02$aGeorgia Humanities Council. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971481803321 996 $aAfrican American life in the Georgia lowcountry$94536341 997 $aUNINA