Yes, Lord, I know the road : a documentary history of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008 / edited by J. Brent Morris. - Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The people commonly called Negroes" : becoming African American in South Carolina -- "De bless fa true, dem wa da wok haad" : the development of South Carolina's slave society -- "A jubilee of freedom" : liberty and emancipation in South Carolina -- "All men are born free and equal" : the era of Reconstruction -- "Each tomorrow will find us farther than today" : black life in the New South -- "We shall overcome" : the African American revolution in the Palmetto State -- "Common ground" : a new generation of black South Carolinians.

The first comprehensive five-century chronical of the South Carolina African American experience.



9781611177329

2016049459


African Americans--History--South Carolina--Sources.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .Y475 2017