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

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Lowcountry Georgia and the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1733–ca. 1820
“High notions of their liberty”: Women of Color and the American Revolution in Lowcountry Georgia and South Carolina, 1765–1783
“I began to feel the happiness of liberty, of which I knew nothing before”: Eighteenth-Century Black Accounts of the Lowcountry
Africans, Culture, and Islam in the Lowcountry
“They shun the scrutiny of white men”: Reports on Religion from the Georgia Lowcountry and West Africa, 1834–1850
Reclaiming the Gullah-Geechee Past: Archaeology of Slavery in Coastal Georgia
A Spirit of Enterprise: The African American Challenge to the Confederate Project in Civil War–Era Savannah
“The great cry of our people is land!” Black Settlement and Community Development on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 1865–1900
Summoning the Ancestors: The Flying Africans’ Story and Its Enduring Legacy
A Sense of Self and Place: Unmasking My Gullah Cultural Heritage
Contributors
Index
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A gallery of illustrations follows page