Book
'A peculiar people': slave religion and community-culture among the Gullahs
New York University Press • New York • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Creel, Margaret Washington.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is an historical account of slavery in the South, with particular reference to South Carolina and Georgia, and the Sea Islands along the coast. The relationship between community, religion, and resistance as these concepts affected the African American population is the theme of this book. The work is divided into four major parts. In Part I, the African background of the slaves is discussed. Part II deals with African- American-Caucasian relationships, or 'counterpoints', as the author calls it, up to the War of Independence. The African American-Caucasian relationship concept is continued into Part III, but here the subject is rebellion and the Caucasians' reaction to it in the form of repression. The counterpoint technique is dropped in Part IV, with the discussion turning to a presentation of Gullah socio-religious culture in a collective setting.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Slavery
- Missions
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Gullah Geechee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1990
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1670-1866
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- South Carolina , United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Margaret Washington Creel
- General information on slavery in the South and on mainland South Carolina and Georgia has been indexed only for History (175).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-402) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87022698
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sea Islands/Gullahs