Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Blacks in the New World);
Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Blacks in the New World)

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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.


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