Tales of the Congaree

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction Masks of Edward C. L. Adams xi
• Notes lxv
• Congaree Sketches 1
• Contents 3
• The Big Swamps of the Congaree 5
• The Hopkins Nigger 6
• Jonas 8
• A Freshet on the Congaree 9
• Hell Fire 11
• The Rattlesnake 14
• Sunning on the Golden Stairs 15
• Judge Foolbird 16
• Old Sister 17
• Old Sister's Friends 20
• Old Sister in Heaven 23
• Old Sister in Hell 26
• The Settin' Up 29
• The Little Old Man on the Gray Mule 30
• The Lake of the Dead 32
• Aunt Dinah's Cat 34
• Murder Vs. Liquor 35
• Old Dictodemus 37
• Fragment of a Negro Sermon 42
• His Day is Done 45
• Ole Man Rogan 48
• Big Charleston 50
• The Yellow Crane 53
• White Folks is White Folks 56
• Wild Goose Nest 58
• Transmigration 60
• Belton's Spirit 62
• The Animal Court 63
• Ole Man Tooga's Chile (a Tale of the Chain Gang) 65
• Fine My Chile 68
• The Falling Star 70
• Jay-Birds 71
• Jack-Ma-Lantern 72
• Ole Man Rouse 74
• If You Want to Find Jesus 76
• The Ghosts of Elm Savannah 78
• The Crow 79
• Primus 80
• Jumping-Gut 81
• Cazenova 83
• Spirit Dogs and Barking Snakes 84
• Death Owl 85
• De Law Got Simon 86
• A Fool Nigger 88
• The Two Ducks 89
• The Mule and the Ox 90
• That Quart Kept on Beckoning Me 91
• Don't 'sturb a Houn' 93
• Don't You Play Wid Married Wimmens 94
• Tad's Advice to His Son 95
• Old Sister's Advice to Her Daughter 97
• Jesus Had Trouble All Over the World 99
• Nigger to Nigger 103
• Contents 105
• Foreword 109
• The Swamps 111
• Nigger to Nigger 131
• White Folks 179
• Ghosts and Angels 219
• Bur Rabbit 233
• Preachers 257
• Slavery Time 275
• Funerals 287
• Glossary 303
• Appendixes 313
• Act I 329
• Act II 357

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