Reconstructs daily life in a Lowcountry slave community.

Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Blacks in the New World)

History

Joyner, Charles

Americas

University of Illinois Press

This is the best of cultural history, historical ethnography, folklore and folklife on this serious study of the life of American slaves through the mid-1800's. DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE details all elements of slave life: clothing, food, celebrations, mourning, treatment by masters, and the culture that they created while enslaved.

Essays on the folk culture of the South cover cultural interaction in the old South, the world of slaves, Irish folk culture in the American South, folk music, and the impact of the civil rights movement

Shared Traditions: SOUTHERN HISTORY AND FOLK CULTURE

Grounded in Charles Joyner's unique blend of rigorous scholarship and genuine curiosity, these thoughtful and incisive essays by the eminent southern historian and folklorist explore the South's extraordinary amalgam of cultural traditions. By examining the mutual influence of history and folk culture, Shared Traditions reveals the essence of southern culture in the complex and dynamic interactions of descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans. The book covers a broad spectrum of southern folk groups, folklore expressions, and major themes of southern history, including antebellum society, slavery, the coming of the Civil War, economic modernization in the Appalachians and the Sea Islands, immigration, the civil rights movement, and the effects of cultural tourism. Joyner addresses the convergence of African and European elements in the Old South and explores how specific environmental and demographic features shaped the acculturation process. He discusses divergent practices in worship services, funeral and burial services, and other religious ceremonies. He examines links between speech patterns and cultural patterns, the influence of Irish folk culture in the American South, and the southern Jewish experience. He also investigates points of intersection between history and legend and relations between the new social history and folklore. Ranging from rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation to the creolization of language to the musical brew of blues, country, jazz, and rock, Shared Traditions reveals the distinctive culture born of a sharing by black and white southerners of their deep-rooted and diverse traditions.

Arts & Photography

Music

In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this slave community, and many others like it, the slaves created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances. 
From the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of census and probate records, and above all from slave folklore and oral history, Joyner has recovered an entire society and its way of life. His careful reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people who endured in the face of adversity.
This anniversary edition of Joyner's landmark study includes a new introduction in which the author recounts his process of writing the book, reflects on its critical and popular reception, and surveys the path of scholarship in slave history in the decades since the book's first publication.

Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community

Africa

Down by the Riverside

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ. of Illinois Press

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. EDGE WEAR, SOME CURLING/CREASING AND SCUFFING ON COVERS AND SPINE. HIGHLIGHTING, SOME MARKING AND WRITING NOTED IN BOOK. GREAT READING COPY.

Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series)

Univ of Georgia Pr

Remember Me is a short primer on the coast of Georgia and its unique African cultural heritage. Charles Joyner offers a rich picture of that culture’s stories, songs, and traditions, as well as the nineteenth-century plantation life in which it endured.

Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia Humanities Council Publication)

University of Georgia Press

These five essays from the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures explore the many ways Southern writers have shaped and been shaped by their region. Susan A. Eacker explains how South Carolinian essayist and poet Louisa McCord came to believe slavery was necessary and good within a world that would forever be inhabited by violent men and physically (but not intellectually) defenseless women. Christopher Morris examines the relationship between the economic development in the South and the humor of writers such as Augustus B. Longstreet and Johnson Jones Hooper. Bertram Wyatt-Brown discusses the connection between depression and literary creativity. This relationship has had both glorious and tragic consequences for Southern letters - glorious for the many outstanding achievements by Southern writers, tragic for the literature that might have been but for the prolonged depression, drunkenness, and early death met by so many of them. Anne Goodwyn Jones's contribution is a penetrating deconstruction of gender in the Southern literary renaissance, while Charles Joyner offers an eloquent look at Nat Turner's insurrection of 1831 and William Styron's 1967 novel about the event, providing a much-needed reassessment of Styron's controversial decision to write The Confessions of Nat Turner in the first person.

Southern Writers and Their Worlds (WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB MEMORIAL LECTURES)

Literature & Fiction

Jones, Anne Goodwyn

Eacker, Susan A.

Wyatt, Brown Bertram

History & Criticism

Texas A & M Univ Pr

Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes

Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes

Georgia Writer's Project

Mythology & Folk Tales

IndoEuropeanPublishing.com

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