Author:
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: jonathan, art, images, gullah
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1996-10
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1570031452
ISBN-13: 9781570031458

In his art Jonathan Green paints an autobiography of his childhood and an ode to a people imbued with a profound respect for the dignity and value of others--the Gullah people of South Carolina’s barrier islands. The 180 color images assembled in this collection showcase the meaning, purpose, and beauty that Green finds in the small but critical tasks of life.

Author: Dwight Fryer
Publisher: Kimani Press
Keywords: island, gullah, knees
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0373831196
ISBN-13: 9780373831197

Gillam Hale was born to free parents, and his life was untouched by slavery until his preacher father took him on a trip to minister to the Virginia slaves. Gillam wants beautiful Queen Esther from the moment he sees her, but the only way to purchase her is by distilling illicit whiskey—against his family’s advice.Though Gillam achieves his aim, his talent for making fine whiskey earns the wrath of jealous white neighbors, who kidnap Gillam’s family and scatter them to plantations throughout the South. Gillam escapes from his new owners, yet he can never be truly free until he fi

Author: Charlotte Jenkins
Publisher: Unknown
Keywords: sea, land, cuisine, gullah
Published: 2010
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0982515421
ISBN-13: 9780982515426

Author: William S. Pollitzer
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: heritage, african, people, gullah
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-12-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820327832
ISBN-13: 9780820327839

The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina - Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the native black population of the Sea Islands has developed a vibrant way of life that remains, in many ways, as African as it is American. This volume tells a multifaceted story of this venerable society, emphasizing its roots in Africa, its unique imprint on America, and current threats to its survival. William S. Pollitzer discusses aspects of Gullah history and culture such as language, religion, family and social relationships, music, folklore, tr

Author: Charles Colcock Jones Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: coast, georgia, folktales, gullah
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2000-04-27
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0820322164
ISBN-13: 9780820322162

In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family’s rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now.Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler Harris’s inland dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique language and character. Through Jones’ rendering of the sound and syntax of nineteenth-century Gullah, the lively stories describe the adventures and mishaps of such

Author: Margaret Wade-lewis
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: gullah, studies, father, turner, dow, lorenzo
Number of Pages: 323
Published: 2007-12-29
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1570036284
ISBN-13: 9781570036286

In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story--until now--has remained an enigma, Turner (1890-1972) emerges from behind the shadow of his germinal 1949 study Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect as a man devoted to family, social responsibility, and intellectual contribution. Turner’s life attests to the accomplishments of a single motivated individu

Authors:Lorenzo Dow Turner, Katherine Wyly Mille, Michael B.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: classics, series, southern, dialect, gullah, africanisms
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1570034524
ISBN-13: 9781570034527

A unique Creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner’s landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Af