{"product_id":"african-american-life-in-the-georgia-lowcountry-the-atlantic-world-and-the-gullah-geechee-paperback","title":"African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllison Dorsey\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eBetty Wood\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eEmory Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region's physical and cultural remoteness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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in association with the Georgia Humanities Council.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePHILIP MORGAN is Harry C. Black Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. His book \u003ci\u003eSlave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry\u003c\/i\u003e won the Bancroft Prize and a number of other prestigious awards. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eBlack Experience and the Empire and Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.29 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53130350461261,"sku":"9780820343075","price":71.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/QmlJb3lSMUNZSk00YWVGY09WenVZZz09.webp?v=1767700534","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/african-american-life-in-the-georgia-lowcountry-the-atlantic-world-and-the-gullah-geechee-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}