Twenty-eight stories about plantations from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia that are rich in folklore and feelings as well as historical content. These tales take you to the plantations and let you rub elbows with millionaires like the Vanderbilts, Huttons, Baruchs, Draytons, Roosevelts, and more who decided in the early 1900s to buy themselves each a piece of this southern paradise.

Plantation Tales

History

Nancy Rhyne

Americas

Sandlapper Pub Co

Southern Recipes & Legends

Blending two of the South s favorite pastimes, storytelling and cooking, this book features a hearty feast of recipes spiced with legendary tales of the Low Country. These charming tales of Charleston, Beaufort and Savannah are rich with the real flavor of these colorful old cities. Together these time-honored recipes and legends provide a wonderful visit to the South. Meet pirates, rice planters, debutantes and plantation mistresses and sample fare for which this area of the country is so popular. In this cookbook, the author has gathered kitchen-tested recipes she and her family and friends have collected over the past 30 years.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

The slave narratives compiled from interviews in the Works Projects Administration (WPA) files recorded eyewitness accounts of 19th century American slavery. Elderly ex-slaves recounted memories of their childhood during their enslaved period to convey a powerful image of their lives and daily activities. They describe work, games, food, clothing, thoughts about their situation and the Civil War, and what freedom gave to each one of them. These stories present brief glimpses into the lives and customs of enslaved children on North and South Carolina plantations. The stories are intimate, personal and go to the heart of the conflict and emotion that burned every moment of that day and time.

Voices of Carolina Slave Children

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

A compilation of stories borrowed from former slaves of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. These tales were gathered by the WPA in the years 1935-1939. The slaves were asked questions about their family history and the widespread belief in spirits of various sorts. According to these stories, the five main creatures that "walked the night" were hags, hants, boo-daddies, plat-eyes and ghosts. All had separate characteristics. Hags disguised themselves as regular people, but a midnight they would shed their skin and torment their enemies, draining them of their energy. Hants lived in trees and would torture their victims day and night. Boo-daddies were reincarnations of witch doctors. Plat-eyes could take the form of an animal, sometimes changing from one animal to another. Ghosts were seen coming out of graveyards at night. This book relates the stories of these spirits based upon eyewitness accounts of former slaves.

Slave Ghost Stories: Tales of Hags, Hants, Ghosts, & Diamondback Rattlers

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Carolina Low Country is a magical place with colorful characters and fascinating legends. This collection of memorable tales culminated from interviews with long-time residents of the Carolina coast is a means to pass on these legends. They bared their souls with a fire that burned in their hearts. This inspiring collection of tales includes the Jenkins Orphanage band, Letters from Alice Flagg s grave, the origin of She Crab Soup as told by Sue Alston, the adventures of Captain Jussely as he traveled the Atlantic transporting passengers and cargo, and the disappearing Cemetery of Rockville.

Low Country Voices: What Coastal Back Roads Folk Told Me of Ghosts, Sea Captains, and Charleston Jazzmen

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

According to archivists at the Library of Congress, South Carolina is richer in folklore than any other state. After traveling almost every back road in several South Carolina counties, Nancy Rhyne wholeheartedly supports the claim. With her tape recorder in hand, the author interviewed dozens of Low Country people, finding that almost every person had a story to tell. She sought out everyone from millionaires to the humblest of coastal people. From their narratives she has fashioned a collection of stories steeped in the history and character of the Low Country. Some of the tales in this collection are humorous, some mysterious. Others are positively eerie. There are stories of killer hurricanes, bizarre voodoo practices and inexplicable happenings. Effortlessly, the author takes us from a gorgeous plantation estate of the 1850s to an overgrown and forbidding cemetery in 1979. And she never fails to keep our attention on this somewhat alien but fascinating world―a world peopled with witch doctors, ghosts, cruel overseers, slaves and world-famous personalities. Nancy Rhyne has taken scattered bits of folklore and oral narratives, combined these with her gift of storytelling, and created a wonderfully engaging book that will entertain readers for years to come.

Tales of the South Carolina Low Country

Genre Fiction

Blair

Murder in the Carolinas

True Crime

Unknown

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