Behind God's Back: Gullah Memories: Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina

Name/Title

"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.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

December 2, 2020

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023