Foreword : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. xv FOREWORD The coastal region of Georgia and South Carolina is a fertile field for the study of old cultural heritages. Artists, poets, and novelists are not the only ones who have felt the, allure of this region with its old...
Frogtown And Currytown : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 29 FROGTOWN AND CURRYTOWN Within the western limits of Savannah are Frogtown and Currytown, through which flows Musgrove Creek, narrow and sluggish, on its way from "Big Ogeechee" to the red Savannah River. These are two po...
Title Page : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], DRUMS AND SHADOWS SURVIVAL STUDIES AMONG THE GEORGIA COASTAL NEGROES SAVANNAH UNIT GEORGIA WRITER'S PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION University Of Georgia Press [1940, Copyright Not Renewed] Scanned , January 2004. J. B. Hare...
Springfield : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 35 SPRINGFIELD Rows of faded gray houses, huddled close together and facing on narrow dirt lanes, house the population of Springfield, a Negro community lying west of Savannah near the city waterworks. In the neighborhood are several...
Darien : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 139 DARIEN The Negroes of the Darien section, many of whom live in small scattered communities outside the town, are proud of their Darien ancestry. When the younger people migrate to larger communities, it is a common thing to hear...
Introduction : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. xxi INTRODUCTION The African Negro, introduced as a slave into Virginia in 1619, had been a part of the plantation life of the older colonies of America for more than a century before the Colony of Georgia was founded in 1733. Almost...
St. Simons Island : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 165 ST. SIMONS ISLAND St. Simons, one of the larger coastal islands, lies off the Georgia coast not far from Brunswick on the mainland. For about fifteen years it has been connected by causeway and bridge to the Coastal Highway. St...
Harris Neck : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 113 HARRIS NECK Turning off from the coastal highway near Riceboro a tree-shaded dirt road leads to Harris Neck, a remote little settlement connected to the mainland by a causeway and located about forty-eight miles south of Savannah...
Brownville : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 43 BROWNVILLE Brownville, more prosperous of aspect than the Negro communities usually fringing business and industry, spreads westward along the edge of Savannah. Though on its Currytown boundary it, too, contains the inevitable...
Yamacraw : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 21 YAMACRAW 1 Yamacraw takes its name from the little Indian town that Tomochichi, chief and friend of General Oglethorpe, established on the Savannah River bluff west of the township of Savannah over two hundred years ago. Today...
Pin Point : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 77 PIN POINT Pin Point, a Negro community about nine miles southeast of Savannah, is scattered over some twenty or thirty acres on a peninsula overlooking Shipyard Creek. Many of the small wooden cabins are neatly whitewashed and are...
Sandfly : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 83 SANDFLY Sandfly, about nine miles southeast of Savannah, is a scattered Negro community spreading through the hot pine barrens to the Isle of Hope. There is nothing unusual or outstanding about the sleepy little settlement; its...
Tatemville : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 61 TATEMVILLE Extending southwest from Savannah over a widely scattered area is a section known locally as Tatemville. This settlement is inhabited largely by Negroes, some of whom are survivals of ante-bellum days. It is interesting...
Sunbury : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 105 SUNBURY Our car came to an abrupt stop in the sandy road before the board fence which enclosed a small group of weather-beaten clapboard houses. We called to a young Negro girl who lounged in a doorway and she came forward to see...
Wilmington Island : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 97 WILMINGTON ISLAND Uncle Jack Tattnall 1 and Uncle Robert Pinckney 2 are river men. For many years they have earned a frugal living by casting for shrimp or crabbing or fishing in the Wilmington River. Apparently they are in little...
Notes To The Reader : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. xix NOTES TO THE READER Pronunciation of individual words, elision, and emphasis play almost equal roles in the Negro speech of this section. Except for the spelling of surnames, dialect in the interviews has been faithfully...
Appendix : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 185 APPENDIX 1. BURIAL AT HOME 1a "Basden says of the Ibo": "The desire of every Ibo man and woman is to die in their own town or, at least, to be buried within its precincts. For a long period it was very difficult to persuade a m...
Glossary : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 233 GLOSSARY ahmeen--spoken in a prayer ameela--spoken in a prayer anansi, An Nancy-spider balonga--watermelon belambi, hakabara, mahamadu--spoken in a prayer boo-boo-no--circular African house of sticks and straw, plastered with mud...
Tin City : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 11 TIN CITY Eastward from Savannah in weed-grown fields lies Tin City, born of the depression and nurtured by the lean years that have followed. The little settlement, with its uncertain lanes winding through a maze of grass and tall...
Untitled : * This collection of oral folklore from coastal Georgia was assembled during the 1930s as part of a WPA writers' program, under the supervision of Mary Granger. The accounts in this book, framed by colorful descriptions of the rural locales where they were collected, were principally from elderly...
White Bluff : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 69 WHITE BLUFF Huge, moss-hung oaks form a canopy and cast filigreed shadows upon the White Bluff Road, which passes directly through the quiet Negro community of White Bluff, eight miles southeast of Savannah. Winding roads turn...
Pine Barren Near Eulonia : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 125 PINE BARREN NEAR EULONIA After the muddy ruts through the pine clearing had ended, there was no road, and the car jerked and bounded about among the pine trees. The soft brown needles made better traveling than the boggy wag...
St. Marys : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 177 ST. MARYS The Negroes of St. Marys live scattered about the town and its outskirts. In the past few years many of the very old people have died and there remain only a few who are past eighty years old. We went to see Hettie...
Old Fort : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 1 DRUMS AND SHADOWS OLD FORT Dusty, windy lanes bordered with rows of squat wooden houses, wide paved streets lined on each side with paintless one-story frame structures, the smells of river, fishboats, fertilizer plants and escaping...
Acknowledgments : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful thanks are due to Melville J. Herskovits and Guy B. Johnson whose unfailing interest has been an inspiration and whose critical advice and untiring encouragement have been a valuable aid to the project...
Bibliography : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 239 BIBLIOGRAPHY Bancroft, Frederic. "Slave Trading in the Old South". Baltimore: J. J. Furst Co., 1931. Basden, George Thomas. "Among the Ibos of Nigeria". Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley, Service Part II, January...
Possum Point : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 131 POSSUM POINT A winding tree-shaded dirt road leads from Darien up the Altamaha to the Negro community of Possum Point. The freshets in the section rise in the rainy season and the road is often flooded. On either side the trees are...
Sapelo Island : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 151 SAPELO ISLAND Sapelo Island is one of the chain of "Golden Isles" lying along the Georgia Coast. The word Sapelo was derived from "Zapala," the name used by the Indians when the island was a favorite hunting ground for the tribes...
Grimball's Point : * "Drums and Shadows", by Georgia Writer's Project, [1940], p. 91 GRIMBALL'S POINT Grimball's Point, lying at the northwestern end of the Isle of Hope on the marshes and creeks that run from the wide Skidaway River, is one of the characteristic spots of Savannah's rural landscape. The lowl...
