"Behind God's Back": Gullah Memories: Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina
Entry/Object ID
2020.004.3
Description
Examines the history of Gullah communities and culture through interviews and biographical vignettes interwoven with traditional historical narrative.
Contents: Voices : Harold Lincoln -- Voices : Philip Simmons -- Native Americans -- Africans and Europeans -- The Cainhoy riot -- Turn of the century -- Domestic workforce -- Family tragedies -- Birthing a community -- Timber -- Moonshine -- Education -- Remembering Old Cainhoy -- Boats, buses, and civil rights -- The land -- Protecting Gullah culture -- Voices of a new generation --Saving cemeteries -- Appendix 1. Berkeley County licensed midwives in 1951 -- Appendix 2. Huger-Wando post offices -- Appendix 3. How land was lost -- Appendix 4. Heirs' property -- Appendix 5. Dividing the money.
286 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Library
Acquisition
Accession
2020.004
Source or Donor
Archives/Library Purchases (2020)
Acquisition Method
Purchased
Credit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund Purchase
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
Berkeley County (S.C.)--History, Berkeley County (S.C.)--Biography--Anecdotes, Cainhoy (S.C.)--History, Wando (S.C.)--History, Huger (S.C.)--History, Daniel Island (S.C.)--History, Gullahs--South Carolina--Berkeley County--History, Gullahs--South Carolina--Berkeley County--Social life and customs, Gullahs--South Carolina--Berkeley County--Anecdotes, African Americans--South Carolina--Berkeley County--Biography
Book Details
Author
Frazier, Herb, 1950-
Publisher
Evening Post Books
Place Published
City
Charleston
State/Province
South Carolina
Country
United States of America
Date Published
2011
Call No.
F277 .B5 F73 2011
ISBN
9780982515471
Location
Location
Building
Missroon Library
Category
Permanent
Date
February 7, 2023
Location
Building
Checked Out
Moved By
Cashion Drolet
Date
December 8, 2020
General Notes
Note
Notes: By Herb Frazier.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-271) and index.
