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Daufuskie Island: 25th Anniversary Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Alex Haley, Deborah Willis
Creator: Jeanne Moutoussamy-ashe
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
Buy Used: $25.97
You Save: $23.98 (48%)
Sales Rank: 564595
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Anv Exp
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 10.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1570037485
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.799
EAN: 9781570037481
ASIN: 1570037485
Publication Date: December 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Appears new and unread. Red stamp on top of pages, rest like new. We ship promptly, same or next business day. Includes delivery confirmation with tracking number emailed to you date of shipment. Excellent customer service. Please contact us any time with questions you may have.(art)
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Product Description
First published in 1982, Daufuskie Island vividly captures life on a South Carolina Sea Island before the arrival of resort culture using the photographs of Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and words of Alex Haley. Located between Hilton Head and Savannah, Daufuskie Island has since become a plush resort destination. Moutoussamy-Ashe's photographs document what daily life was like for the last inhabitants to occupy the land prior to the onset of tourist developments. When Moutoussamy-Ashe first came to Daufuskie in 1977, about eighty permanent African American residents lived on the island in fewer than fifty homes. Many of the people still spoke their native Gullah dialect. They had only one store, a two-room school, a nursery, and one active church. This represented all that remained of a once-thriving black society that developed after the plantation owners left and the land was bought by freed slaves. After the boll weevil caused cotton crop failures and pollution ruined oyster beds, more and more residents sold their land to real estate developers. It became clear that Daufuskie would soon be transformed into a coastal resort like neighboring Hilton Head, changing forever the unique island culture that had survived largely unchanged for the preceding half-century. Moustoussamy-Ashe's photographs show family gatherings, crabbing and fishing, children at play, spiritual life, and the toils of everyday existence. With the utmost respect for her notoriously shy subjects, she captured a powerful vision of their rough-hewn but rewarding life independent from many modern conveniences. Redesigned from cover to cover, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Daufuskie Island includes more than fifty previously unpublished photographs from the original contact sheets, a new preface by Deborah Willis, and a new epilogue by Moutoussamy-Ashe. This edition is published to accompany a traveling exhibition sponsored by Merrill Lynch.
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