Gullah Tears
Title | Gullah Tears PDF eBook |
Author | Josie Olsvig |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2020-10-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781646631469 |
In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution of slavery. From Hentie's abduction and confinement on a slaver ship, we follow her journey of pain and despair as she begins her new life in a land that causes her much heartache and oppression. Her circumstances are buoyed by the warmth, love and support of her fellow enslaved workers, who lift her up and encourage her to continue on.
When Roots Die
Title | When Roots Die PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Jones-Jackson |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0820323934 |
When Roots Die celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of "Brer Rabbit," records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.
Growing Up Gullah in the Lowcountry
Title | Growing Up Gullah in the Lowcountry PDF eBook |
Author | JOsie Olsvig |
Publisher | Palmetto Publishing Group |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-01-13 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781641114028 |
A Net to Catch Time
Title | A Net to Catch Time PDF eBook |
Author | Sara H. Banks |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
Depicts a day in the life of a boy on one of Georgia's barrier islands as sequenced by the Gullah terms for time.
Trouble the Water
Title | Trouble the Water PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Seitz |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2008-03-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 141853675X |
Set in the South Carolina Sea Islands, Nicole Seitz's second novel follows the stories of two sisters. One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she's got it all together until her sister's imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne's Island. An entrancing, unsettling story of sisterhood and sea changes, healing grace and unlikely angels. A tragic, hilarious, hope-filled novel about the art of starting over.
'Behind God's Back'
Title | 'Behind God's Back' PDF eBook |
Author | Herb Frazier |
Publisher | Evening Post Books |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780982515471 |
Tales from Brookgreen
Title | Tales from Brookgreen PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Michelsohn |
Publisher | Cleanan Press Inc |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780977161454 |
History, Mystery, and Romance in the Carolina Lowcountry! A haunted necklace, a trickster rabbit, an ingenious slave, a shrieking droll, and a fianc returned from the dead all come to life in Lynn Michelsohn's new collection of Carolina Lowcountry ghost stories and folklore from the four historic rice plantations making up Brookgreen GardensSouth Carolina's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach. These enchanting folktales, tied to specific plantation locations and historical events, enrich the enjoyment of any visit to the Lowcountry for tourists, armchair travelers, or devotees of ghost stories and folklore. Lynn Michelsohn, a tenth generation Carolinian, is clearly drawn to history, mystery, and romance wherever she finds it, as her previous book, "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!" explores intrigues of a different kind. Now, in "Tales from Brookgreen" her charming retelling of these sometimes-eerie, sometimes-sad, sometimes-humorous tales engages readers in characters and folkways unique to the Carolina Lowcountry.