Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?
Author: Guy Carawan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1994-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0820316431

This book presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors.

John's Island

John's Island
Author: Connie Walpole Haynie
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738543468

JohnÃ's Island (also spelled Ã"Johns IslandÃ") is the largest Sea Island and the second largest island on the East Coast. The legendary Angel Oak, a restored 18th-century mansion, and an African American praise house are a few of the historic treasures found beyond the islandÃ's wide salt marsh vistas. Its scenic roads wind along rivers under moss-draped oaks, where planters and their descendants have farmed for generations. Since new development is rapidly changing the islandÃ's character, residents have collected these photographs from past generations to help preserve a disappearing way of life.

Field Trip: My Years on a Johns Island Farm

Field Trip: My Years on a Johns Island Farm
Author: Lee Glover
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Change is constant. It's happening all around us all the time. At this very moment, all across America, cities, towns, and communities are changing. Populations shift, incomes fluctuate, and social norms evolve. Change is a huge concept. And just south of Charleston, South Carolina, Johns Island was a tiny community until it wasn't. Born-and-raised Johns Island resident Lee Glover tells the story of the evolution of his home from a rural agrarian setting to a rapidly changing sea island of the Low Country. Traditionally, Johns Island produced millions of pounds of fresh produce that was shipped all across America every year. Each summer, migrants and workers of all description, and in numbers sometimes surpassing the island's total population, flocked to participate in the harvest. By August, everything was serenely calm once again. Then, in the late twentieth century, a massive change in industry from agriculture to tourism saw the once-quiet community transform into something vastly different. Field Trip is a deeply personal documentation of this change to preserve some of the times, events, and people that are rapidly fading into history. Through remembrances and shared history, the reader will learn the trials and joys of growing the food we eat and the intricacies of working with many different people. Going deeper than just the industrial history of Johns Island, the book is a lesson on how fellowship is one of several essential ingredients to having meaningful and enduring relationships. It is a glue that helps to hold relationships together during challenging times of change.

St. John Island, USVI

St. John Island, USVI
Author: Paul Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781912483167

St. John Island, USVI. Travel Guide, Vacation, Holiday, Honeymoon. It may be the smallest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, but St. John is a natural wonder of luminous crescent bays and perfumed forest groves. It's got miles of pristine parkland, fresh-scented hiking trails, and mossy peaks with panoramic views. It's got probably the best beaches per capita of any Virgin Island. It's got a sleepy, secluded feel if you can't chill out here, well, then better get thee to an apothecary. In fact, St. John is where St. Thomas locals come to "plug out. They don't call it "Love City" for nothing. St. John is no mere pretty face, however. It has in the ruins of 18th-century sugar plantations a landscape dotted with its own trail of tears. It's got churches: 18 at last count. St. John has no airport and no cruise-ship pier. Nonetheless, it is a favorite day-trip destination from nearby islands and a popular ferry excursion for cruise-ship passengers from St. Thomas. But the day-tripper and cruise-ship crowds that stream over in the morning are generally gone before nightfall.

The Story of Sea Island Cotton

The Story of Sea Island Cotton
Author: Richard Dwight Porcher
Publisher: Wyrick
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780941711739

The cultivation, harvesting, and sale of sea island cotton was one of the most important economic forces in the southeastern United States from 1790 to just before the Civil War and, to a lesser extent, in the early twentieth century.

Black in White America

Black in White America
Author: Leonard Freed
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 1606060112

Originally published: New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 958
Release: 1938
Genre: Geology
ISBN: