| Description |
xi, 311 p., [46] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. |
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Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 |
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Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- History.
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African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- Religion.
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Gullahs -- Georgia -- Atlantic Coast -- History.
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Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- History.
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Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Social conditions.
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Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Religious life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
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Georgia Humanities Council.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780820330648 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0820330647 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780820342740 (electronic bk.) |
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