Description
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 community, and many others like it, enslaved people created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances.
A new edition of the classic study of slave life in the American South
About the Author
Charles Joyner (1935-2016) was Burroughs Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, past president of the Southern Historical Association, and the author of Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture and other works.
Reviews
Co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Award, 1985.
"Beautifully written and richly suggestive."--Washington Post Book World
"Reaches beyond any other single work in recreating in its pages a texture so fine and full that readers may feel the ribs and twills of slave life. Highest recommendation."--Library Journal
"The finest work ever written on American slavery."--George P. Rawick, editor of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
"Down By the Riverside is one of the most significant books published by the University of Illinois Press in the past quarter century."--Richard L. Wentworth, former director of the University of Illinois Press
Awards
Winner of
Book Information
ISBN 9780252076831
Author Charles Joyner
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm
Joyner recovers an entire lost society and way of life 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 the folklore and oral history of the enslaved Americans. His classic reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people.
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 past three decades of scholarship on the history of enslaved people in the United States.
A new edition of the classic study of slave life in the American South
About the Author
Charles Joyner (1935-2016) was Burroughs Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, past president of the Southern Historical Association, and the author of Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture and other works.
Reviews
Co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Award, 1985.
"Beautifully written and richly suggestive."--Washington Post Book World
"Reaches beyond any other single work in recreating in its pages a texture so fine and full that readers may feel the ribs and twills of slave life. Highest recommendation."--Library Journal
"The finest work ever written on American slavery."--George P. Rawick, editor of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
"Down By the Riverside is one of the most significant books published by the University of Illinois Press in the past quarter century."--Richard L. Wentworth, former director of the University of Illinois Press
Awards
Winner of
Co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Award, 1985.
1985.Book Information
ISBN 9780252076831
Author Charles Joyner
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm
