Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
MorganPhilip D., 1949- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Georgia Humanities Council |
Place of Publication: |
Athens, Ga. |
Published: |
University of Georgia Press; In association with the Georgia Humanities Council; |
Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 311 p., [46] p. of plates)ill., maps. : |
Series: |
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 |
Subject: |
Gullahs - History - Georgia - |
Subject: |
African Americans - Religion - Georgia - |
Subject: |
African Americans - Social conditions - Georgia - |
Subject: |
African Americans - History - Georgia - |
Subject: |
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) - Religious life and customs - |
Subject: |
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) - Social conditions - |
Subject: |
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) - History - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820342740/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9780820342740electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0820342742electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780820330648hbk. |
ISBN: |
0820330647hbk. |
Content Note: |
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 -- Aspirit 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 : unmaskingmy Gullah Cultural Heritage / Emory S. Campbell |