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Coming Through : Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories
Title
Coming Through : Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories / collected by Genevieve W. Chandler ; edited by Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough ; foreword by Charles W. Joyner.
ISBN
9781643364117
9781570037214
Publication
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (440 pages): illustrations, maps
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Coming Through marks the first complete publication of these interviews with former slaves and their descendants living in the Waccamaw Neck region of South Carolina as collected by Genevieve W. Chandler as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project. Between 1936 and 1938 Chandler interviewed more than one hundred individuals in and around All Saints Parish, a portion of Horry and Georgetown counties located between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean. Her subjects spoke freely with her on topics ranging from slave punishment to folk medicine, from conditions in the Jim Crow South to the exploits of Brer Rabbit. --from publisher description.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Contents
Something more precious: Genevieve Willcox Chandler and Carolina folk culture
Welcome Bees
Will Bees
Hagar Brown
Louisa Brown
Sam Brown
Margaret Bryant (granddaughter)
Margaret Bryant (grandmother)
Rev. Albert and Ella Carolina
Martha Cox
Will Deas
Ellen Godfrey
Matthew Grant
Loney "Noonie" Heywood
Mariah Heywood
Monday Samson Holmes
Ben and Stella Horry
Bobbitt Horry
Alex Johnson
Andrew Keith
Addie Knox
Lillie Knox
Minnie Ladson Knox
Richard Knox
Thelma Knox
Zackie Knox
Cinchy Lance
Gabe Lance
Mike Maybank
Jim Moody
William Oliver
Maude Esther Lee Pickett
Reverend Aaron Pinnacle
Fred Poinsette
Carrie Pyatt
Hackless Riley
Sabe Rutledge
John Simmons
Rev. Cato Singleton
Claude Singleton
George Kato Singleton
Boss Skinner
Ella Small
Lewis Small
Liza Brown Small
Rebecca Washington
Lula White
Willis Williams
Martha Wright
Memo from Mabel Montgomery
Memo from Folklore Dept.
Memos from Henry Alsberg
Maps: Murrells Inlet and Waccamaw Neck, c. 1936
Gullah communities, churches and homes, c. 1936
White plantations, homes and churches, c. 1936.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Anecdotes.
Interviews.
Interviews.
History.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
interviews.
Anecdotes
Interview
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