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12. Voodoo in the Holy City
written by Geordie Buxton; in Haunted Plantations: Ghosts of Slavery and Legends of the Cotton Kingdoms, Legendary Locals (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 76-82
A shackled West African tribe drags themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy...
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written by Geordie Buxton; in Haunted Plantations: Ghosts of Slavery and Legends of the Cotton Kingdoms, Legendary Locals (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 76-82
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A shackled West African tribe drags themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America's past—real lives of...
A shackled West African tribe drags themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America's past—real lives of people on plantations from Savannah and the coast of the Carolinas. Most deal with the hub of the East Coast slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina. All are richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary images. Dwelling in the affairs of plantation life is to tread the fires of emotionally raw history. Sifting through the folklore and legends, the old hushed embers of the south ignite once again in this collection. While these stories relate encounters with the supernatural, readers will find that what actually happened here doesn't always need a ghost to be disquieting.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Geordie Buxton
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Legendary Locals
Topic / Theme
Plantations, Folklore, Ghosts, Slavery, Vodoo
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 by Geordie Buxton
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March of Time, Volume 3, Episode 8, Harlem's Black Magic
in March of Time, Volume 3, Episode 8 (New York, NY: HBO, 1937, originally published 1937), 5 mins
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in March of Time, Volume 3, Episode 8 (New York, NY: HBO, 1937, originally published 1937), 5 mins
Date Written / Recorded
1937
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Westbrook Van Voorhis, 1903-1968
Date Published / Released
1937-03-19, 1937
Publisher
HBO
Series
March of Time
Speaker / Narrator
Westbrook Van Voorhis, 1903-1968
Topic / Theme
Vodoo, Religion and Belief Systems, American History, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Home Box Office.
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