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BLACK SLAVEOWNERS: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 by Larry Koger

Koger sheds light on the rationale behind African-American slaveholding, reveals the caste system that existed within antebellum African-American society, and challenges the notion that African Americans purchased slaves primarily for humanitarian reasons.
Softcover ISBN 1-57003-037-5 $22.95
 

DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE: A South Carolina Slave Community

by Charles Joyner

The finest work ever written on American slavery." -- George P. Rawick, editor of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography

"Beautifully written and richly suggestive."
-- Washington Post Book World

"Reaches beyond any other single work in recreating in its pages a texture so fine and full that readers may feel the ribs and twills of slave life. Highest recommendation." -- Library Journal

384 pages. 6 x 9 inches.  1986

ISBN 10: 0252076834, ISBN 13: 978-0252076831

$29.95** (Softcover)

Gullah is the only English-derived creole language in use on the United States of America mainland.  Gullah is a unique linguistic contribution of the African- American people to our American heritage. 

                    Books on Gullah

 

 

Mamba's Daughters A Novel of Charleston

by DuBose Heyward with a new introduction by Don H. Doyle

The author of Porgy portrays Charleston's comic social climbers

6 x 9, 320 pages
Softcover, ISBN 1-57003-042-1, $19.95

 

 

 

Reflections: A Pictorial History of Certain People of South Carolina 1840S TO 1940S

E. LOUISE

A comprehensive collection of over 450 photographs of people that contributed to the history and legacy of South Carolina.

272 pages. 2010. Cecil Williams Publishing.

ISBN-13: 978-0944514-31-3 , Hardcover $49.95**

 
 
 

Row Upon Row
 Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry

by Dale Rosengarten

The persistence of the coiled sea grass basket tradition over a span of three centuries is a tribute to the African American basketmakers who value their craft as an important part of their cultural heritage and as a means of self-expression.

8 1/2 x 11, 72 pages
Softcover, ISBN 0-87249-956-1, $16.95

 

SLAVE GHOST STORIES: 

Tales of Hags, Hants, Ghosts, & Diamondback Rattlers

by Nancy Rhyne

 

A compilation of stories borrowed from former slaves of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.  More info... 
Sing for FreedomSing for Freedom

Guy and Candie Carawan
 

THE SONG OF THE COTTON PICKER

by Madeline Horres Hantske
Foreword by Archibald Rutledge  Photographs by Carl Julien

True, musical and humorous Gullah poems.

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VOICES OF CAROLINA SLAVE CHILDREN

by Nancy Rhyne

The slave narratives compiled from interviews in the Works Projects Administration (WPA) files recorded eyewitness accounts of 19th century American slavery

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Real Voices, Real History™ series

Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery Mighty Rough Times, I Tell YouOn Jordan's Stormy BanksWe Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard