The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants―people who owe; in some ways; as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life; they often engage a central dilemma: the region’s physical and cultural remoteness helps to preserve the venerable ways of its black inhabitants; but it can also marginalize the vital place of lowcountry blacks in the Atlantic World.The essays; which range in coverage from the founding of the Georgia colony in the early 1700s through the present era; explore a range of topics; all within the larger context of the Atlantic world. Included are essays on the double-edged freedom that the American Revolution made possible to black women; the lowcountry as site of the largest gathering of African Muslims in early North America; and the coexisting worlds of Christianity and conjuring in coastal Georgia and the links (with variations) to African practices.A number of fascinating; memorable characters emerge; among them the defiant Mustapha Shaw; who felt entitled to land on Ossabaw Island and resisted its seizure by whites only to become embroiled in struggles with other blacks; Betty; the slave woman who; in the spirit of the American Revolution; presented a “list of grievances†to her master; and S’Quash; the Arabic-speaking Muslim who arrived on one of the last legal transatlantic slavers and became a head man on a North Carolina plantation.Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council.
#1289458 in Books University of Georgia Press 1991-10-01 1991-10-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.57 x 6.00l; 1.69 #File Name: 0820313963624 pages
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