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Descended : Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rushing, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christopher, Sancho, 1843-1914.
- Christopher, Sancho.
- Rushing, Keith--Family.
- Rushing, Keith.
- Gullahs--South Carolina--Hilton Head Island--Biography.
- Gullahs.
- Gullahs--South Carolina--Hilton Head Island--History.
- Gullahs--South Carolina--Hilton Head Island--Social life and customs.
- Hilton Head Island (S.C.)--Genealogy.
- Hilton Head Island (S.C.).
- Hilton Head Island (S.C.)--Race relations--History.
- Hilton Head Island (S.C.)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A mysterious name initiates a journey to discover one family's past, and reveals more than was expected. It began with a name. Sancho. Gleaned from the memory of his oldest living relative, that name set author Keith Rushing on a quest to recover his family's story. Rushing came to learn that Sancho was an African name, a common practice among the Gullah-Geechee communities of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands. He found that Sancho had been born into slavery on Hilton Head Island and later fought as a soldier in a war for self-emancipation. Rushing learned that after that war Sancho had become a small landowner. Above all, he discovered that his family's story was richer than he had ever imagined. In Descended, Rushing recounts his own journey of discovery, and in the process unfurls a dramatic story about the transformation of Hilton Head. Descended is a story about family, place, and the desire to understand where we have been and where we are going"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Rice Connection
- A State Rooted in Slavery
- What's in a Name?
- The Battle for Emancipation
- The Land That Liberates
- The Ancestors Find Their Way
- Speaking Gullah
- Life before and after the Bridge
- A Gullah-Geechee Family's Ties
- Where Religion and Justice Intersect
- Leaving Geechee Behind
- The Double-Edged Sword.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rushing, Keith Descended
- ISBN:
- 9781643365633
- OCLC:
- 1483705986
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