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

• Superior document: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
• Author: Georgia Humanities Council.
• TeilnehmendeR: Morgan, Philip D., 1949-; Georgia Humanities Council.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
• Physical Description: xi, 311 p., [46] p. of plates :; ill., maps, ports.

Table of 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.