When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands

by Patricia Jones Jackson and Patricia Jones-Jackson

Book Overview

When Roots Die celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia Coast. Entering into communities long sheltered from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of 'Ber Rabbit, ' records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820311219
• ISBN13: 9780820311210
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Well worth the read

The saddest pages of this book are a tribute in the preface to the author who died before it was published. I was sad to learn of the death of a talented young black academic. But then, as I read this charming highly readable book, I was sad that I'd never have the opportunity to meet the author. Dr. Jones-Jackson was a linguist who specialized in the people who live in the Sea Islands off South Carolina and Georgia. Although this is an academic book, it is full of delightful surprises about an interesting people. I particularly enjoyed the prayers and sermons from New Jerusalem Church.