Tales of the Congaree Edward C.L. Adams ; edited with an introduction by Robert G. O'Meally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Edward C. L. (Edward Clarkson Leverett), 1876-1946.

Contributor:

O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-

Standardized Title:

Congaree sketches

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Literary collections.

Slavery.

African Americans--Folklore--Literary collections.

African Americans.

African Americans--Literary collections.

South Carolina--Literary collections.

South Carolina.

Congaree Swamp (S.C.)--Literary collections.

Congaree Swamp (S.C.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tales of the Congaree

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CONGAREE SKETCHES; Contents; The Big Swamps of the Congaree; The Hopkins Nigger; Jonas; A Freshet on the Congaree; Hell Fire; The Rattlesnake; Sunning on the Golden Stairs; Judge Foolbird; Old Sister; Old Sister's Friends; Old Sister in Heaven; Old Sister in Hell; The Settin' Up; The Little Old Man on the Gray Mule; The Lake of the Dead; Aunt Dinah's Cat; Murder vs. Liquor; Old Dictodemus; Jeff's Funeral Sermon; Fragment of a Negro Sermon; His Day Is Done; Ole Man Rogan; Big Charleston; The Yellow Crane; White Folks Is White Folks

Wild Goose NestTransmigration; Belton's Spirit; The Animal Court; Ole Man Tooga's Chile; Fine My Chile; Purtty Little Folks; The Falling Star; Jay-Birds; Jack-Ma-Lantern; Öle Man Rouse; If You Want to Find Jesus; The Ghosts of Elm Savannah; The Crow; Primus; Jumping-Gut; Cazenova; Spirit Dogs and Barking Snakes; Death Owl; De Law Got Simon; A Fool Nigger; The Two Ducks; The Mule and the Ox; That Quart Kept on Beckoning Me; Don't 'Sturb a Houn'; Don't You Play wid Married Wimmens; Tad's Advice to His Son; Old Sister's Advice to Her Daughter; Jesus Had Trouble All over the World

NIGGER TO NIGGERContents; Foreword; THE SWAMPS; Evil Sperrits; The Swamps; The Lonesome Hunter; The King Buzzard; An Escaped Convict; Goose Pond; Bannister Bridge; NIGGER TO NIGGER; Big Annie; A Yellow Bastard; Joe; A Prison; The Hawk and the Rooster; Mensa; Magic; Jazy; The Turkey Hunt; Old Lady Beck; Red; Just One Time to Die; Becky; The Savage; Ruint; Edecation; Darlay; Brass Ankles; A Peacemaker; The Death of a Turkey Hunter; Lula; Old Man Jim Kinkade; The Water Hole; Pick; Sweet Chile; Drug Up; Tough; WHITE FOLKS; Thirteen Years; The Telephone Call; A Damn Nigger; The Lynchers

A Bottle of LiquorOld Mammy; A Good Looking Man; Three Doctors; A Fisherman; Land Rent; Loyalty; They Oughter Had a Sign on It; How to Kill an Owl; The Ventriloquist; The Courts; Ain't Never Own Niggers; Fundamentals; Temper's Song; GHOSTS AND ANGELS; Old Moccasin's Ghost; The Ghost of White Hall; The Angel of Cow Pen Lake; The Smokehouse Angel; Tyu's Angel; BUR RABBIT; Bur Rabbit in Red Hill Churchyard; Bur Jonas' Goat; The Rat; The Dance of the Little Animals; The Spider and the Rabbit; A Roost on the Rim of the Moon; The Frog and the Snake; The Monkey and the Elephant; 'Gators and Snakes

The Bell-Ringing RatCootas; A Jay Bird Thief; PREACHERS; Allen's Idea of Preachers; A Bit of Correspondence; Two Prayers; God; Virgins; Old Brother Tries to Enter Heaven; The Harps of God; Converted; The Bear Fight; SLAVERY TIME; Gullah Joe; A Slave; Old Man Hildebrand; The Slave Barn; The Wild River Shore; FUNERALS; Silas; Ain't No Corn-Bread There; Sister Lucy; Rejoice Ye at Dey Coin' Out; Fragment of a Funeral Sermon; Elizabeth Coleman; She's at Rest; Funeral of a Brother; She Sleeps on a Hillside; The Galloping Hosts of Heaven; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R

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Notes:

Includes Congaree sketches (1927) and Nigger to nigger (1928)

Bibliography: p. lxv-lxix.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Adams, Edward C. L. (Edward Clarkson Leverett), 1876-1946. Nigger to nigger. 1987.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-111-6

979-88-908707-9-7

1-4696-1618-1

1-4696-1617-3

OCLC:

871172527