Resource Type: book
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred t…
Legends of The Lumbee (and some that will be)
The 55,000 members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina reside primarily in Robeson, Hoke, Cumberland, and Scotland counties. The Lumbee Tribe is the…
Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
"There's nothing happens to a person that can't be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and there's something in the ear…
Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition
An ancient African art, sweetgrass basket making utilizes sweetgrass, bullrush, pine needles, and palm leaves to create unique, handmade pieces. Tradi…
Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston
In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the whi…
Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia
This book contains significant cultural words and terms of the Gullah Culture. It is an atempt to promote a better undertstanding of past traditions a…
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African ro…
Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
The Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere …