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Black Genesis : a chronicle / by Samuel Gaillard Stoney and Gertrude Mathews Shelby ; illustrations by Martha Bensley Bruére.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4193
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, 1891-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--South Carolina--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Black English.
- Animals--Folklore.
- Animals.
- Creation.
- Tales--South Carolina.
- Tales.
- Animals--in folklore, mythology, & religion.
- Black People.
- Folklore.
- South Carolina.
- Medical Subjects:
- Animals--in folklore, mythology, & religion.
- Black People.
- Folklore.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan Co., 1930.
- Notes:
- "Tales of the Gullah Negroes of the Carolina low country [told in the Gullah dialect]"--Foreword.
- "The family tree of Gullah folk speech and folk tales": P. ix-xxv.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has ms. inscription ("Bon Voygage Arpad") in blue ink on leaf preceding half-title leaf.
- OCLC:
- 262131
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