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Gullah traditions are the customs, beliefs and ways of life that have been passed down among Sea Island families. Making sweetgrass baskets, quilting, and knitting fishing nets are a few of the crafts...
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Gullah communities are located where enslaved Africans once lived and worked on Sea Island plantations that were owned by American colonists. Native Americans were also part of these communities. The...
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A former public school teacher in New York City, Joyce Hansen writes contemporary novels, as well as historical fiction, exploring the African American experience. The Gift Giver was her first...
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From West Africa During the late 1600s, English settlers in the new colonies needed more workers to farm thousands of acres of land on Sea Island plantations. Although some of the workers were Native...
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Born and raised in South Carolina, Ms. Rizer taught school for twenty-five years and raised two sons. Her first Callie Parrish book was written after she retired from teaching. Book number six was...
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A novelist, illustrator and publisher, Jonathan Miller grew up in Clover and graduated from Clover High School before making his home in Charleston, where he attended college. Mr. Miller is the author...
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Misty Massey was born in Virginia and moved to South Carolina when she was twelve. Her parents were both educators who encouraged her reading addiction, which started in kindergarten! She is known as...
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This program features Mignon Ballard. When she was growing up in a small Georgia town, she enjoyed telling ghost stories in the local cemetery. Now she shares her stories through her books.
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While her first three novels are mainly about contemporary family life in the South, her fourth, Nowhere Else on Earth, is an historical novel based on a true story from the Civil War. Rich in Love...
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Mr. Pinckney resides on Daufuskie Island, a South Carolina coastal barrier island. On this last sparsely-settled place on the SC coast, he works to preserve the land and culture. His is the author of...