Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? The People of Johns Island, South Carolina: Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs by Charles Joyner, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? The People of Johns Island, South Carolina: Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs

Charles Joyner, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan

268 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced

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Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forebears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a...

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