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Corporate Author Society for the Preservation of Spirituals.

Title The Carolina low-country / by Augustine T. Smythe, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Alfred Huger .. [and others] Illustrations by Anna Heyward Taylor, Augustine T.S. Stoney, Alice R. Huger Smith ... [and others]..

Publication Info. New York : The Macmillan Co., 1931.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  CS 917.57 SM9    Check Shelf
Description 326 pages : color frontispiece, plates (part color) double map. ; 20 cm
Note Part of the plates accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
"The Society for the Preservation of Spirituals was the immediate active agent which brought about the production of these associated chapters and the publication of this book."--Pref.
Contents Preface by A.T. Smythe.--The Low-country, by H.R. Sass.--The story of the Low-country, by Alfred Huger.--The Yemassee lands, by Beatrice Ravenel.--Charleston: the capital of the plantations, by T.R. Waring.--Plantation lights and shadows, by Archibald Rutledge.--An island boy, by Josephine Pinckney.--The Negro in the Low-country, by Du Bose Heywood.--The Negro spiritual, by R.W. Gordon.--Some songs the Negro sang, arranged by Katharine C. Hutson, Josephine Pinckney and Caroline P. Rutledge.
Note "Spirituals: words and music": p. [229]-[327].
Subject South Carolina -- Description and travel.
South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
South Carolina -- Social life and customs.
Historic buildings -- South Carolina.
Charleston (S.C.)
African Americans -- South Carolina.
Spirituals (Songs)
African Americans -- Music.
Added Author Smythe, Augustine Thomas, 1885-1962.
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