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Title African American life in the Georgia lowcountry : the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee / edited by Philip Morgan.

Publication Info. Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press : in association with the Georgia Humanities Council, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- A spirit 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 : unmasking my Gullah Cultural Heritage / Emory S. Campbell.
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Subject African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- History.
African Americans.
Georgia -- Atlantic Coast.
History.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- Religion.
Religion.
Gullahs -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- History.
Gullahs.
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- History.
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Social conditions.
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Religious life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
Georgia Humanities Council.
Other Form: Print version: African American life in the Georgia lowcountry. Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press : In association with the Georgia Humanities Council, ©2010 9780820330648 (DLC) 2009022714 (OCoLC)318866859
ISBN 9780820342740 (electronic book)
0820342742 (electronic book)
1283253089
9781283253086
9780820330648
0820330647
Standard No. 9786613253088