Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Blacks in the New World)
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Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Blacks in the New World)
This is the best of cultural history, historical ethnography, folklore and folklife on this serious study of the life of American slaves through the mid-1800's. DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE details all elements of slave life: clothing, food, celebrations, mourning, treatment by masters, and the culture that they created while enslaved.