African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700â 1900 Ser.)

Morgan, Philip [Editor]; Dorsey, Allison [Contributor]; Wood, Betty [Contributor]; Campbell, Emory [Contributor]; Clarke, Erskine [Contributor]; Jones, Jacqueline [Contributor]; Gomez, Michael [Contributor]; Pressly, Paul M. [Contributor]; Singleton, Theresa [Contributor]; Powell, Timothy [Contributor]; Carretta, Vincent [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 0820330647 / ISBN 13: 9780820330648

Edité par University of Georgia Press, 2010

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[Personal copy of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan (Editor).] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Corner bumped. Clean, unmarked pages. xi, 311 p., ill., 24 cm. "These ten excellent essays on the Gullah-Geechee people in the Georgia lowcountry enrich and complicate our understanding of the entire subject of American slavery and its legacies." - David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

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• Titre: African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700â 1900 Ser.)
• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820330647
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820330648
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 24 onces
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • African American History

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Synopsis

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 As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region’s physical and cultural remoteness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.

À propos des auteurs

ALLISON DORSEY is an associate professor of history at Swarthmore College.

BETTY WOOD was a Reader in American History, Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her works include Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1775 and Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1830 (Georgia).

JACQUELINE JONES is Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University. She is the author of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present, which won the 1986 Bancroft Prize, and The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present.

PAUL M. PRESSLY was the director of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance from 2005-2017; he now serves as director emeritus. He also provides leadership on special projects related to the future use of Ossabaw Island and on collaboration with K-12 and university institutions to provide educational programming. Pressly is coeditor of Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast and African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee. He is the author of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World (all Georgia).

VINCENT CARRETTA is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of more than ten books, including scholarly editions of the writings of Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Ignatius Sancho, and Ottobah Cugoano. His books include Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage; Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man; and The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary, coedited with Ty M. Reese (all Georgia). He lives in Springfield, Virginia.