Description |
1 online resource (lxix, 367 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Contents |
Congaree sketches. The big swamps of the Congaree -- The Hopkins nigger -- Jonas -- A freshet on the Congaree -- Hell fire -- The rattlesnake -- Sunning on the golden stairs -- Judge Foolbird -- Old Sister -- Old Sister's friends -- Old Sister in heaven -- Old Sister in hell -- The settin' up -- The little old man on the gray mule -- The lake of the dead -- Aunt Dinah's cat -- Murder vs. liquor -- Old Dictodemus -- Jeff's funeral sermon -- Fragment of a Negro sermon -- His day is done -- Ole man Rogan -- Big Charleston -- The yellow crane -- White folks is white folks -- Wild goose nest -- Transmigration -- Belton's spirit -- The animal court -- Ole man Tooga's chile -- Fine my chile -- Purtty little folks -- The falling star -- Jay-birds -- Jack-ma-lantern -- Ole man Rouse -- If you want to find Jesus -- The ghosts of Elm Savannah -- The crow -- Primus -- Jumping-gut -- Cazenova -- Spirit dogs and barking snakes -- Death owl -- De law got Simon -- A fool nigger -- The two ducks -- The mule and the ox -- That quart kept on beckoning me -- Don't 'sturb a houn' -- Don't you play wid married wimmens -- Tad's advice to his son -- Old Sister's advice to her daughter -- Jesus had trouble all over the world |
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Nigger to nigger. The swamps. Evil sperrits -- The swamps -- The lonesome hunter -- The king buzzard -- An escaped convict -- Goose pond -- Bannister Bridge |
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Nigger to nigger. Nigger to nigger. Big Annie -- A yellow bastard -- Joe -- A prison -- The hawk and the rooster -- Mensa -- Magic -- Jazy -- The turkey hunt -- Old lady Beck -- Red -- Just one time to die -- Becky -- The savage -- Ruint -- Edecation -- Darlay -- Brass ankles -- A peacemaker -- The death of a turkey hunter -- Lula -- Old man Jim Kinkade -- The water hole -- Pick -- Sweet chile -- Drug up -- Tough |
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Nigger to nigger. White folks. Thirteen years -- The telephone call -- A damn nigger -- The lynchers -- A bottle of liquor -- Old mammy -- A good looking man -- Three doctors -- A fisherman -- Land rent -- Loyalty -- They oughter had a sign on it -- How to kill an owl -- The ventriloquist -- The courts -- Ain't never own niggers -- Fundamentals -- Tomper's song |
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Nigger to nigger. Ghosts and angels. Old Moccasin's ghost -- The ghost of White Hall -- The angel of Cow Pen Lake -- The smokehouse angel -- Tyu's angel |
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Nigger to nigger. Bur Rabbit. Bur Rabbit in Red Hill churchyard -- Bur Jonas' goat -- The rat -- The dance of the little animals -- The spider and the rabbit -- A roost on the rim of the moon -- The frog and the snake -- The monkey and the elephant -- 'Gators and snakes -- The bell-ringing rat -- Cootas -- A jay bird thief |
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Nigger to nigger. Preachers. Allen's idea of preachers -- A bit of correspondence -- Two prayers -- God -- Virgins -- Old Brother tries to enter heaven -- The harps of God -- Converted -- The bear fight |
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Nigger to nigger. Slavery time. Gullah Joe -- A slave -- Old man Hildebrand -- The slave barn -- The wild river shore |
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Nigger to nigger. Funerals. Silas -- Ain't no corn-bread there -- Sister Lucy -- Rejoice ye at dey goin' out -- Fragment of a funeral sermon -- Elizabeth Coleman -- She's at rest -- Funeral of a brother -- She sleeps on a hillside -- The galloping hosts of heaven |
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Appendixes. The Carolina wilderness -- Potee's gal |
Summary |
Tales of the Congaree |
Notes |
Includes Congaree sketches (1927) and Nigger to nigger (1928) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages lxv-lxix) |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Subject |
African Americans -- Literary collections
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African Americans -- Folklore -- Literary collections
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Slavery -- Literary collections
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FICTION -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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African Americans
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Slavery
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SUBJECT |
Congaree Swamp (S.C.) -- Literary collections
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South Carolina -- Literary collections
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Subject |
South Carolina
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South Carolina -- Congaree Swamp
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Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-
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Adams, Edward C. L. (Edward Clarkson Leverett), 1876-1946.
Nigger to nigger
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ISBN |
9781469616179 |
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1469616173 |
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9781469616186 |
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1469616181 |