CONGAREE SKETCHES: Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip of Heaven and Hell with Other Miscellany, with an Introduction by Paul Green

Adams, Edward C.L.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. A remarkable record of black life in the 1920s, chronicled by a white physician from the area around the Congaree River in central South Carolina. This was the first of two collections of tales, poems, and dialogues from African Americans who worked his land, presented in the black vernacular language. Octavo: xvii, [3], 116 pp. Original yellow cloth-covered boards over a black cloth spine with gilt-stamped titles. Partially unopened. A very good copy. Very good. Item #78586

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