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Books About Our Area

  • A Guide to The Georgia Coast
    by the Georgia Conservancy, 1984.


  • Coastal Georgia
    by Beth Reiter and Van Jones Martin, 1985.


  • Cumberland Island. The Unsung North End
    by Mary Miller, 1990.


  • Flags of Five Nations: A Collection of Historical Sketches
    and Stories of The Golden Isles of Georgia

    by Burnett Vanstory, 1971.


  • Frederica, Colonial Fort and Town
    by Trevor Reese, 1969.


  • Georgia's Land of The Golden Isles
    by Burnett Vanstory, 1981.


  • Ghost Stories and Superstitions of Old St. Simons
    by Burnett Vanstory, 1971.


  • Guale: The Sacred Landscape
    by James Valentine, 1988.


  • Historic Glimpses of St. Simons Island, 1736-1924
    by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society, 1973.


  • Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires
    by William B. and June H. McCash, 1989.


  • Live Oaking: Southern Timber for Tall Ships
    by Virginia Steele Wood, 1981.


  • Our Todays and Yesterdays: A Story of Brunswick and The Golden Isles
    by Margaret Davis Cae, 1931.


  • Patriarchal Plantations of St. Simons Island (a series)
    by Mildred Huie, 1974.


  • St. Simons: Enchanted Island
    by Barbara Hull, 1980.


  • This Happy Isle: The Story of Sea Island and The Cloister
    by Harold H. Martin 1978.


African American Heritage Books

  • Austin, Alan D. ed. African Muslims in Antebellum American: A Sourcebook. New York, 1984.
      Includes two chapters on coastal Georgia Moslem slaves.

  • Bell, Malcolm, Jr. Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family. Athens, 1987.
      A splendid modern study of Pierce Butler and his descendants.

  • Jones, Bessie and Bess Lomax Hawes. Step It Down. New York, 1972. Reprint. Athens, 1987.
      Memoirs of the great Coastal Georgia singer. Outstanding source for African-American culture on Georgia coast.

  • Jones-Jackson, Patricia. When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands. Foreword by Charles Joyner. Athens, 1987.
      Study of the Gullah language and folk culture on the Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands.

  • Kemble, Frances Anne. Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839. New York, 1863. Reprint, with introduction by John Anthony Scott. Athens, 1984.
      Fascinating portrait of life on a St. Simons plantation by the English actress who married Pierce Butler.

  • Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens, 1986.
      Award-winning modern study of late Georgia slavery.

  • Parrish, Lydia. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. New York, 1942.
      Pioneering volume of songs collected directly from former slaves.

  • Smith, Julia Floyd. Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia. 1750-1860. Knoxville, 1985.
      Excellent modern institutional study.

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