Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast

by Charles Colcock Jones Jr.

Book Overview

In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now.

Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler Harris's inland dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique language and character. Through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820322164
• ISBN13: 9780820322162
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 7.0"