Essays on the folk culture of the South cover cultural interaction in the old South, the world of slaves, Irish folk culture in the American South, folk music, and the impact of the civil rights movement.
Essays on the folk culture of the South cover cultural interaction in the old South, the world of slaves, Irish folk culture in the American South, fo...
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...
In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Car...
"Remember Me" is a short primer on the coast of Georgia and its unique African cultural heritage. Charles Joyner offers a rich picture of that culture's stories, songs, and traditions, as well as the nineteenth-century plantation life in which it endured.
"Remember Me" is a short primer on the coast of Georgia and its unique African cultural heritage. Charles Joyner offers a rich picture of that culture...
