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Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community
Charles Joyner
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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 community, and many others like it, enslaved people created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances.
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 community, and many others like it, enslaved people created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances.
Joyner recovers an entire lost society and way of life from the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of ... Read more
This anniversary edition of Joyner's landmark study includes a new introduction in which the author recounts his process of writing the book, reflects on its critical and popular reception, and surveys the past three decades of scholarship on the history of enslaved people in the United States.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076831
SKU
V9780252076831
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About Charles Joyner
Charles Joyner (1935-2016) was Burroughs Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, past president of the Southern Historical Association, and the author of Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture and other works.
Reviews for Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community
Co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Award, 1985. "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 "The finest work ever written ... Read more
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 "The finest work ever written ... Read more