Down by the riverside
a South Carolina slave community
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Author
Publication
1984 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
86,250 words, Guess
Page Count
345 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedownbyriversides0000joyn
- ISBN-100252010582
- ISBN-139780252010583
- LibraryThing714787
- Goodreads5125386
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- Library of Congress Control Number83010369
- OCLC Control Number9644946
- Better World Books9780252010583
- Open LibraryOL17768410M
Classifications
- DDC975.7/89
- LCCF279.A43 J69 1984
- LCCF279.A43.J69 1984
Description
"In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner 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. In this slave community, and many others like it, the slaves created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances. From the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of census and probate records, and above all from slave folklore and oral history, Joyner has recovered an entire society and its way of life. His careful reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people who endured in the face of adversity." -- From the publisher's description.
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- Folklore
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- Down by the riverside: a South Carolina slave community
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