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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 $19.95

 
Daufuskie Island
25th Anniversary Edition

Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Original Foreword by Alex Haley
New Preface by Deborah Willis
New Epilogue by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

A celebration of life on a South Carolina Sea Island and a clarion call for cultural preservation in the rural South

10 x 10½, 176 pages.110 b&w photographs.
ISBN 978-1-57003-748-1, $49.95 (Hardcover)

 

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 0-252-01305-0. $24.95** (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

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, $15.95

 

SLAVE GHOSTS 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... 

 

THE SONG OF THE COTTON PICKER

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

True, musical and humorous Gullah poems.

More info...

 

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

More info...

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

 

YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE
Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families

by Andrew Billingsley  Foreword by James E. Clyburn

A sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesman.  More info...

To order call Sandlapper Publishing 800-849-7263

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       Black History Titles:

AFRICANISMS IN THE GULLAH DIALECT     by Lorenzo Dow Turner ISBN 1-57003-452-4, $21.95

AIN’T YOU GOT A RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE?
by Guy and Candie Carawan
ISBN 0-8203-1643-1, $29.95*
*

AMADEUS: The Leghorn Rooster
by Delores Nevils
Illustrated by Jonathan Green
ISBN 0-87844-174-3, $17.95


BEFORE FREEDOOM,
WHEN I CAN JUST REMEMBER

by Belinda Hurmence
ISBN 0-89587-069-X, $8.95

BITTLE ‘EN T’ING: Gullah Cooking
with Maum Chrish
by Virginia Geraty
ISBN 0-87844-107-7, $11.95

THE BLACK BORDER
by Ambose E. Gonzales
ISBN 1-56554-444-7, $29.95**

BLACK SLAVEOWNERS by Larry Koger
ISBN 1-57003-037-5, $19.95

BLUE ROOT’S African American Folk Magic of the Gullah People
by Roger Pinckney
ISBN 0-87844-168-9, $16.95

BRAVE BLACK PATRIOTS
by Idella Bodie
ISBN 0-87844-159-X, $6.95

CHARLESTON BLACKSMITH,The Work of Philip Simmons
by John Michael Simmons
ISBN 0-87249-835-2, $18.95

CIRCLE UNBROKEN
by Margot Theis Raven
ISBN 0-374-31289-3, $16.00**(HC)
ISBN 0-312-37603-0, $6.99 **(PB)

COOKING THE GULLAH WAY
by Sallie Robinson
ISBN 0-8078-5843-9, $17.95**

THE DOCTOR TO THE DEAD
by John Bennett
ISBN 1-57003-092-8, $14.95

DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE:
A South Carolina Slave Community
by Charles Joyner
ISBN 0-252-01305-0, $24.95**

A GULLAH ALPHABET
by Margie Clary
ISBN 0-87844-184-0, $16.95

GULLAH BRANCHES, WEST AFRICAN ROOTS by Ron Daise
ISBN 0-87844-182-4, $24.95

GULLAH HOME COOKING THE
DAUFUSKIE WAY

by Sallie Ann Robinson
ISBN 0-8078-5456-5, $17.95**(pb)

GULLAH IMAGES, The Art of Jonathan Green
by Jonathan Green
ISBN 1-57003-145-2, $49.95

THE GULLAH MAILMAN
by Pierre McGowan
ISBN 1-57197-199-8, $19.95

GULLAH NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS        by Virginia Geraty
ISBN 1-56554-330-0, $16.95**

THE GULLAH PEOPLE
by William Pollitzer
ISBN 0-8203-2783-2, $24.95**

GULLUH FUH OONUH,
(Gullah For You)
by Virginia Geraty
ISBN 0-87844-137-9, $14.95

KIDS STORIES FROM THE LAND OF GULLAH DVD $16.95**

LITTLE MUDDY WATERS
A Gullah Tale by Ron Daise
ISBN 1-891503-01-4, $16.95

MAMBA’S DAUGHTERS
by Dubose Heyward
ISBN 1-57003-042-1, $19.95

MIGHTY ROUGH TIMES, I TELL YOU

by Andrea Sutcliffe
ISBN 0-89587-226-9, $12.95

MY FOLKS DON’T WANT ME TO TALK ABOUT SLAVERY

by Belinda Hurmence
ISBN 0-89587-039-8, $6.95

ON JORDAN’S STORMY BANKS

by Andrew Waters
ISBN 0-89587-228-5, $7.95

ROW UPON ROW
by Dale Rosengarten
ISBN 0-87249-956-1, $15.95

SISTERS AGAINST SLAVERY

A Story about Sara and Angeline Grimke
by Stephanie McPherson
ISBN 1-57505-815-4, $6.95**

SLAVE GHOST STORIES

Tales of Hags, Hants, Ghosts & Diamondback Rattlers by Nancy Rhyne
ISBN 0-87844-164-6, $9.95

SONG OF THE COTTON PICKER

by Madeline Horres Hantske
ISBN 0-887844-181-6, $24.95

A SWEET, SWEET BASKET

by Margie Clary
ISBN 0-87844-127-1, $16.95

TALES FROM THE LAND OF
GULLAH DVD $21.95**

THE ULTIMATE GULLAH COOKBOOK by Jesse Gantt
ISBN 978-0-742202-0-8, $21.95**

VOICES OF CAROLINA SLAVE CHILDREN by Nancy Rhyne  ISBN 0-87844-150-6, $13.95

WADMALAW ISLAND,
Leaving Traditional Roots Behind

by Allen Mitchell ISBN 1-57502-120-X, $14.95**

THE WATER BROUGHT US
The Story of the Gullah Speaking People

by Muriel Miller Branch
ISBN 0-87844-153-0, $12.95

WE LIVED IN A LITTLE CABIN IN THE YARD by Belinda Hurmence
ISBN 0-89587-118-1, $7.95

WHEN ROOT'S DIE  ISBN 0820323934, $24.95**

WITHIN THE PLANTATION HOUSEHOLD, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
ISBN 0-8078-4232-X, $21.95**

WOMAN RICE PLANTER
by Elizabeth Allson Pringle
ISBN 0-87249-826-3, $18.95

YEARNING TO BREATHE
by Andrew Billingsley
ISBN 1-57003-686-1, $34.95