Before and After Freedom

by Rhyne, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9781596290860
• ISBN10: 1596290862
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-30
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

In the late 1930s the Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) began an undertaking to document the history and folklore of South Carolina as told by surviving slaves and their decedents. What was produced over the five-and-half-year project was an extensive collection-thousands of written pages-of African American folklore that had been passed down through generations and, until then, had never before been collected and published.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Living in Heaven	p. 12
An Accident of God	p. 12
The Mere-Maid (Mermaid)	p. 13
A Hiding Place	p. 13
Buh Patridge and Buh Rabbit	p. 14
Sheep Heads and Dumpling	p. 14
Tricky Rabbit and Buh Gator	p. 15
My Father and the Whiskey	p. 16
Buh Rabbit and Buh Guinea	p. 16
The Balloon	p. 17
Parson Glennie	p. 18
Maussa was a Little Boy	p. 19
That Would Be the Difference	p. 20
'Mancipation	p. 20
Buh Rabbit Tricks Buh Gator	p. 21
Buh Wolf	p. 22
Brookgreen Snakes	p. 22
Caesar's Cure	p. 23
Beauregard's Method of Eating Fish	p. 24
No One Died on Edingsville Beach	p. 24
The Beautiful Lady on the Ship	p. 25
The Tar Baby	p. 26
Mom Cinchy	p. 27
Freedom on Sandy Island	p. 28
The Spirits of Hagley	p. 29
Sassafras Tea	p. 31
Sarah	p. 31
Mr. Allston's Boyhood	p. 32
Riding the Sheep	p. 33
After We Moved to Summerville	p. 33
Buh Cooter and Buh Deer	p. 34
A Faithful Servant	p. 34
The Circumnavigator	p. 35
The Last Rice Crop	p. 35
What Judge Samuel H. Wilds Said to Samuel Slater on the Murder of His Own Slave	p. 36
Judge Wilds's Famous Sentence	p. 37
A Woman on Her Feet	p. 39
The Bronze Tablet	p. 41
The Denmark Vesey Insurrection	p. 41
The Stono Insurrection	p. 43
Blockade Running During the Civil War	p. 43
Vanderbilt Buys the Last Alston Plantation	p. 48
De Flagg Storm	p. 50
The Horse Racing Aristocracy	p. 51
The Criminals Who Were Never Hanged	p. 52
Money on the Grave	p. 53
Questions and Answers with Aunt Liza	p. 55
Evacuation	p. 55
Living With The Ghost of Aunt Sissy	p. 56
The Sea Monkey	p. 58
Once Upon A Time When Charleston was the Capital	p. 60
The Governor Who Rebuilt Charles Town	p. 61
The Mace	p. 62
Governor Sails with Another Man's Wife	p. 63
All Modern Conveniences	p. 63
A Most Romantic Royal Governor	p. 64
Mr. Waterson's Legacy	p. 64
Daughter of a Sea Captain	p. 65
The Secret of Brick House Plantation	p. 67
Poinsettia Named for Lowcountryman	p. 69
Murder at the Ten Mile House	p. 70
The Great Sea Turtle	p. 71
The Gift	p. 73
Tokened	p. 74
The Disappearance of Theodosia Burr	p. 75
Bullice Wine and Snakes	p. 80
The Governor and the Pirates	p. 80
Sandy Claw and Uncle Sam	p. 86
The Mail Boat	p. 86
Hiding from the Yankees	p. 87
The Man Who Could See Ghosts	p. 88
The Slave Who Witnessed History	p. 88
Never Had Time To Play Games	p. 90
Aunt Hetty Was Something Else	p. 90
Funerals Were At Night	p. 91
I Stopped Shaking Hands and Kissing	p. 92
Epilogue	p. 93
Index	p. 94
About the Author	p. 96
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