African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee

African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee - Paperback

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African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee - Paperback

African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee - Paperback

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by Allison Dorsey (Contribution by), Betty Wood (Contribution by), Emory Campbell (Contribution by)

The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region's physical and cultural remoteness helps to preserve the venerable ways of its black inhabitants, but it can also marginalize the vital place of lowcountry blacks in the Atlantic World.

The essays, which range in coverage from the founding of the Georgia colony in the early 1700s through the present era, explore a range of topics, all within the larger context of the Atlantic world. Included are essays on the double-edged freedom that the American Revolution made possible to black women, the lowcountry as site of the largest gathering of African Muslims in early North America, and the coexisting worlds of Christianity and conjuring in coastal Georgia and the links (with variations) to African practices.

A number of fascinating, memorable characters emerge, among them the defiant Mustapha Shaw, who felt entitled to land on Ossabaw Island and resisted its seizure by whites only to become embroiled in struggles with other blacks; Betty, the slave woman who, in the spirit of the American Revolution, presented a "list of grievances" to her master; and S'Quash, the Arabic-speaking Muslim who arrived on one of the last legal transatlantic slavers and became a head man on a North Carolina plantation.

Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council.

Author Biography

PHILIP MORGAN is Harry C. Black Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. His book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry won the Bancroft Prize and a number of other prestigious awards. His recent books include Black Experience and the Empire and Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age.

Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.29 x 6.06 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 15, 2011
ISBN9780820343075
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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