The Carolina low-country / by Augustine T. Smythe, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Alfred Huger ... [and others] Illustrations by Anna Heyward Taylor, Augustine T. S. Stoney, Alice R. Huger Smith ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society for the Preservation of Spirituals.

Contributor:

Smythe, Augustine Thomas, 1885-1962.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--South Carolina.

African Americans.

Historic buildings.

Manners and customs.

South Carolina.

Spirituals (Songs).

South Carolina--Description and travel.

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

History.

South Carolina--Social life and customs.

South Carolina--Historic houses, etc.

Charleston (S.C.).

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 leaves, 3-326 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 leaves : color frontispiece, plates (part color) double map. ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Macmillan company, 1931.

Contents:

Preface by A. T. Smythe.

The Low-country, by H. R. Sass.

The story of the Low-country, by Alfred Huger.

The Yemassee lands, by Beatrice Ravenel.

Charleston: the capital of the plantations, by T. R. Waring.

Plantation lights and shadows, by Archibald Rutledge.

An island boy, by Josephine Pinckney.

The Negro in the Low-country, by Du Bose Heyward.

The Negro spiritual, by R. W. Gordon.

Some songs the Negro sang, arranged by Katharine C. Hutson, Josephine Pinckney and Caroline P. Rutledge.

Notes:

Part of the plates accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

"The Society for the preservation of spirituals was the immediate active agent which brought about the production of these associated chapters and the publication of this book."--Pref.

"Spirituals: words and music": p. [229]-[327]

OCLC:

9245786