| Author |
Gonzalez, Ambrose Elliott, 1857-1926 |
| LoC No. |
22018224
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| Title |
The black border : Gullah stories of the Carolina coast (with a glossary)
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| Original Publication |
Columbia: The State Company, 1922.
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| Contents |
Noblesse oblige -- My maussuh -- An antemortem demise -- The lion of Lewisburg -- The lion killer -- Old Barney -- Billybedam -- A short cut to justice -- Sam Dickerson -- Simon the "squerril" hunter -- The "cunjuh" that came back -- The raccoon hunter -- The turkey hunter -- The 'gator hunter -- The "wiles that in the women are" -- A ricefield idyll -- The Dower House -- At the cross roads store -- Mingo the drill master -- Old Harrison -- A marriage of convenience -- The plat-eye -- Old Pickett -- The lost buck -- Jim Moultrie's divorce -- Buh alligettuh en' buh deer -- Buh hawss en' buh mule (a fable) -- Liss "bin eensult" -- The retort courteous -- The cat was crazy -- A congaree water-color -- Waiting till the bridegrooms come -- A Gullah's tale of woe -- The doctor didn't "exceed" -- The lady couldn't "specify" -- A question of privilege -- Conductor Smith's dilemma -- One was taken; the other left -- Egg-zactly -- An interrupted offertory -- A flaw in the "eenditement" -- Old wine; new bottles -- A glossary of the Gullah -- The Tar-baby story, as told by Col. C.C. Jones and Joel Chandler Harris.
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| Credits |
Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
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| LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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| Subject |
Tales -- South Carolina
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| Subject |
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Folklore
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| Subject |
Sea Islands Creole dialect -- Texts
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
71432 |
| Release Date |
Aug 18, 2023 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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