A New Negro for a New Century: An Accurate and Up-to-Date Record of the Upward Struggles of the Negro Race. – by Booker T. Washington – 428 pp.; ca. 1901. Includes contributions by N. B. Wood and Fannie Barrier Williams.
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“Dusky Land – Gullah Poems and Sketches of Coastal Carolina”; Published by William Plumer Jacobs, 1942
The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Low Country region of South Carolina and Georgia. The Gullah language is related to Jamaican Creole and the Bahamian and West African dialects.
Here the speech of the Gullah has been preserved [...]
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“Black April” by Julia Peterkin, author of “Scarlett Sister Mary”.
A novel about the Gullahs of South Carolina. Triangle Books – 1927
Dusky Land – Gullah Poems and Sketches of Coastal Carolina
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AVON, New York – 1951 First Edition. ”The Good Times He Wanted He Could Only Find In Harlem. Love was cheap and life was high in the torrid zone of ‘Little Old New York.”
Complete And Unabridged; beautiful cover art by Ray Johnson.
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“Dusky Land – Gullah Poems and Sketches of Coastal Carolina”; Published by William Plumer Jacobs, 1942
The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Low Country region of South Carolina and Georgia. The Gullah language is related to Jamaican Creole and the Bahamian and West African dialects.
Here the speech of the Gullah has been preserved [...]
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Tags:african american·Africana·black history·books·carolina·dialects·Georgia·Gullah·independent bookshop·Low Country·north carolina·rare books·slavery·South Carolina