“A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides an introduction. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story. John Bennett’s interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. So begins “Crook-Neck Dick,” one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true. . . . A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina.
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