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'A peculiar people'Book 1988 • Creel, Margaret Washington
Sea Islanders • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
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 Afr...Gullah attitudes toward life and deathessay 1990 • Creel, Margaret Washington
Sea Islanders • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In this paper, Creel examines Gullah religious life and attitudes towards death in the Antebellum period. (This article also forms a chapter in her book, see document no. 3.) She identifies aspects of Gullah religious practice and beliefs that origin...