Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition
Prologue
Chapter One.   "Down by the Riverside"
Chapter Two.   "All Dem Rice Field"
Chapter Three.   "Sit at the Welcome Table"
Chapter Four.   "Off Times"
Chapter Five.   "Come by Here, Lord"
Chapter Six.   "All De Bes' Story"
Chapter Seven.   Gullah: A Creole Language
Chapter Eight.   "My Time Up with You"
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Promotional Information

A new edition of the classic study of slave life in the American South

About the Author

Charles Joyner (1935-2016) was Burroughs Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, past president of the Southern Historical Association, and the author of Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture and other works.

Reviews

Co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize.  Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Award, 1985.

"Beautifully written and richly suggestive."--Washington Post Book World "Reaches beyond any other single work in recreating in its pages a texture so fine and full that readers may feel the ribs and twills of slave life. Highest recommendation."--Library Journal "The finest work ever written on American slavery."--George P. Rawick, editor of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography "Down By the Riverside is one of the most significant books published by the University of Illinois Press in the past quarter century."--Richard L. Wentworth, former director of the University of Illinois Press