When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher) - Softcover

Jones-Jackson, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820311219 ISBN 13: 9780820311210

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1989

Synopsis

When Roots Die celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of "Brer Rabbit," records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.

About this title

Review:

"A remarkable book about the life and language of the Sea Islands."--"National Geographic"

About the Author:

Patricia Jones-Jackson, an associate professor of English at Howard University, died in 1986 while on assignment for the National Geographic Society on Johns Island, South Carolina. Charles Joyner, author of Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, is Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at the University of South Carolina, Coastal College.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0820311219
• ISBN 13: 9780820311210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206