Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Blacks in the New World)
Book Details
Author(s)Joyner, Charles
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN / ASIN0252013050
ISBN-139780252013058
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank298,846
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.

