Tales of the Congaree

, by Adams, Edward C. L.; O'Meally, Robert G.

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ISBN: 9780807817094 | 0807817090
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/1/1987

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This volume brings back into print a remarkable record of black life in the 1920s, chronicled by Edward Adams, a white physician from the area around the Congaree River in central South Carolina.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Masks of Edward C. L. Adams	p. xi
Notes	p. lxv
Congaree Sketches	p. 1
The Big Swamps of the Congaree	p. 5
The Hopkins Nigger	p. 6
Jonas	p. 8
A Freshet on the Congaree	p. 9
Hell Fire	p. 11
The Rattlesnake	p. 14
Sunning on the Golden Stairs	p. 15
Judge Foolbird	p. 16
Old Sister	p. 17
Old Sister's Friends	p. 20
Old Sister in Heaven	p. 23
Old Sister in Hell	p. 26
The Settin' Up	p. 29
The Little Old Man on the Gray Mule	p. 30
The Lake of the Dead	p. 32
Aunt Dinah's Cat	p. 34
Murder Vs. Liquor	p. 35
Old Dictodemus	p. 37
Fragment of a Negro Sermon	p. 42
His Day is Done	p. 45
Ole Man Rogan	p. 48
Big Charleston	p. 50
The Yellow Crane	p. 53
White Folks is White Folks	p. 56
Wild Goose Nest	p. 58
Transmigration	p. 60
Belton's Spirit	p. 62
The Animal Court	p. 63
Ole Man Tooga's Chile (a Tale of the Chain Gang)	p. 65
Fine My Chile	p. 68
The Falling Star	p. 70
Jay-Birds	p. 71
Jack-Ma-Lantern	p. 72
Ole Man Rouse	p. 74
If You Want to Find Jesus	p. 76
The Ghosts of Elm Savannah	p. 78
The Crow	p. 79
Primus	p. 80
Jumping-Gut	p. 81
Cazenova	p. 83
Spirit Dogs and Barking Snakes	p. 84
Death Owl	p. 85
De Law Got Simon	p. 86
A Fool Nigger	p. 88
The Two Ducks	p. 89
The Mule and the Ox	p. 90
That Quart Kept on Beckoning Me	p. 91
Don't 'sturb a Houn'	p. 93
Don't You Play Wid Married Wimmens	p. 94
Tad's Advice to His Son	p. 95
Old Sister's Advice to Her Daughter	p. 97
Jesus Had Trouble All Over the World	p. 99
Nigger to Nigger	p. 103
Foreword	p. 109
The Swamps	p. 111
Nigger to Nigger	p. 131
White Folks	p. 179
Ghosts and Angels	p. 219
Bur Rabbit	p. 233
Preachers	p. 257
Slavery Time	p. 275
Funerals	p. 287
Glossary	p. 303
Appendixes	p. 313
	p. 329
	p. 357
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