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Georgia's Gullah-Geechee Heritage: Books & eBooks

The Gullah-Geechee are descendants of enslaved West African people who worked on coastal plantations from North Carolina to northern Florida.

Selected eBooks

Claiming Freedom by Karen Cook Bell
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 1611178312
Publication Date: 2018-02-22
Exchanging Our Country Marks by Michael A. Gomez
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780807846940
Publication Date: 1998-03-30
Gullah Culture in America by Wilbur Cross; Emory Shaw Campbell (Foreword by)
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780275994501
Publication Date: 2007
Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast by Jones, Charles Colcock
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780820322162
Publication Date: 2000-04-27
Gullah Spirit by Jonathan Green; Angela D. Mack (Foreword by)
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 1643362143
Publication Date: 2021-11-23
Making Gullah by Melissa L. Cooper
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 1469632683
Publication Date: 2017
Remember Me by Joyner
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 0820338753
Publication Date: 2011-03-30
When Roots Die by Patricia Jones-Jackson; Charles Joyner (Foreword by)
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780820308333
Publication Date: 1987-03-01

Selected Print Books

African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry by Morgan, Philip M. (Editor)
Call Number: F295 .N4 A376 2010
ISBN: 9780820330648
Publication Date: 2010-02-15
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect by Turner, Lorenzo Dow; Mille, Katherine Wyly (Introduction by); Montgomery, Michael B. (Introduction by)
Call Number: PM7875.G8 T8
ISBN: 1570034524
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
The Black Border : Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast by Gonzales, Ambrose Elliott
Call Number: E185.93 .S7 G6 1964
Publication Date: 1964
Down by the Riverside by Charles Joyner
Call Number: GIL Express
ISBN: 9780252076831
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
Drums and Shadows by Georgia Writers' Project, Savannah Unit Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: E185.93.G4 D78 1986
ISBN: 0385013248
Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Also available at Georgia public libraries: NON FIC 975.87 D.
Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater by Sullivan, Buddy
Call Number: F292 .M15 S84 1990
ISBN: 0962580805
Publication Date: 1990-12-01
Folk Culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina by Johnson, Guy B. ; Yoder, Don (Introduction by)
Call Number: E185.93 .S7 J67
ISBN: 9780810350151
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Freedom's Shore by Duncan, Russell
Call Number: F291 .C2 D86 1986
ISBN: 0820309052
Publication Date: 1986
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man by Bailey, Cornelia Walker; Bledsoe, Christena
Call Number: F292.M15 B35 2000
ISBN: 9780385493772
Publication Date: 2001
Grass Roots by Rosengarten, Dale; Rosengarten, Theodore; Enid Schildkrout; Judith Ann Carney (As told to); Jessica B. Harris (As told to); Sandra Klopper (As told to); Thomas Rosengarten
Call Number: NK3649.55.U55 R67 2008
ISBN: 094580251X
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Gullah: Negro Life in the Carolina Sea Islands by Crum, Mason
Call Number: E185.93.S7 C85 1940a (GIL-Express)
Publication Date: 1940
Gullah Branches, West African Roots by Daise, Ronald
Call Number: F277 .B3 D348 2007
ISBN: 0878441824
Publication Date: 2007-07-01
Gullah Culture in America by Wilbur Cross
Call Number: E185.93 .S7 C76 2012 (Brunswick)
ISBN: 9780895875730
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Gullah Culture in America by Cross, Wilbur; Campbell, Emory Shaw (Foreword by)
Call Number: E185.93 .S7 C76 2008 (Brunswick)
ISBN: 9780275994501
Publication Date: 2007
Gullah Days by Thomas C. Barnwell; Emory Shaw Campbell; Carolyn Grant
Call Number: E185.93.S7 B37 2020 (Brunswick)
ISBN: 9781949467079
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles by Patrick J. Holladay; Amy Lotson Roberts; Tyler E. Bagwell (Foreword by); Melanie R. Pavich (Foreword by)
Call Number: F292.G58 R63 2019 (Brunswick)
ISBN: 1467141186
Publication Date: 2019
The Gullah People and Their African Heritage by Pollitzer, William S.; Moltke-Hansen, David (Foreword by)
Call Number: E185.93.S7 P65 1999
ISBN: 9780820320540
Publication Date: 1999
Reminiscences of Sea Island Heritage by Ronald Daise
Call Number: USG - GIL Express
ISBN: 0878441492
Publication Date: 1998-12-01
Lifestyles, customs, superstitions and folklore of St. Helena Island.
Rice Gold by James Bagwell
Call Number: F292.G5 B34 2000 (Camden Center)
ISBN: 0865546517
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
Row Upon Row by McKissick Museum Staff
Call Number: USG - GIL-Express
ISBN: 0872499561
Publication Date: 1993
Sapelo's People by William S. McFeely
Call Number: F292 .M2 M38 1994
ISBN: 9780393313772
Publication Date: 1995
Sapelo Island's Hog Hammock by Johnson, Michele Nicole
Call Number: USG - GIL Express
ISBN: 9780738568478
Publication Date: 2009
Sapelo Voices by Crook, Ray; Bailey, Cornelia Walker; Harris, Norma; Smith, Karen
ISBN: 9781883199142
Publication Date: 2003
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands by Rosenbaum, Art (Introduction by)
Call Number: M1670.P236 S6
ISBN: 0820313971
Publication Date: 1992-03-01
Also available at Georgia public libraries: NON FIC 781.62 S.
The Water Brought Us by Muriel Miller Branch
Call Number: USG - GIL-Express
ISBN: 0525651853
Publication Date: 1995
The Weeping Time by Anne C. Bailey
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 1108141218
Publication Date: 2017-09-18
Gullah Days by Thomas C. Barnwell; Emory Shaw Campbell; Carolyn Grant
Call Number: E185.93.S7 B37 2020
ISBN: 9781949467079
Publication Date: 2020-02-04

Selected Children's/Young Adult Books

Beauty, Her Basket by Belton, Sandra; Cabrera, Cozbi A. (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0688178219
Publication Date: 2004
Circle Unbroken by Raven, Margot Theis; Lewis, E. B. (Illustrator)
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 0312376030
Publication Date: 2007
Dancing the Ring Shout! by Kim L. Siegelson; Lisa Cohen (Illustrator)
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 9780786804535
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Day of Tears by Lester, Julius
Call Number: PS3562 .E853 L567 2007 (Brunswick Juvenile)
ISBN: 1423104099
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
In the Time of the Drums by Siegelson, Kim L. ; Pinkney, Brian (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7 .S56657 In 1999
ISBN: 9780786804368
Publication Date: 1999-03-15
Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci; Brian Pinkney
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 0027781410
Publication Date: 1992-04-30
The Terrible, Wonderful Tellin' at Hog Hammock by Kim L. Siegelson; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.S5757 Or 1996 (Special Collections)
ISBN: 9780060248772
Publication Date: 1996-06-01