African American Life in the Georgia Low Country

African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry shares the story of African Americans along the Georgia coast from the founding of the colony in the early 1700s until the early 1900s.  It explores a range of topics, all within the larger context of the Atlantic world.

Included are essays on the double-edged freedom that the American Revolution made possible to black women, the Lowcountry as site of the largest gathering of African Muslims in early North America, and the coexisting worlds of Christianity and Conjuring in coastal Georgia and the links (with variations) to African practices.