Stories of Albert Henry Stoddard [manuscript] : in the Gullah dialect.

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Stories of Albert Henry Stoddard [manuscript] : in the Gullah dialect.

Buh rabbit fools b'olifaum and buh whale, & Buh rabbit berry lub peas. With the stories is a glossary [2 l. typescript (carbon copy) 35 cm.] and correspondence, 1949, between Stoddard and Louise Savage concerning the stories [4 items typescript signed & typescript (carbon copy)].

7 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7929430

University of Virginia. Library

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Savage, Louise, 1896-1964.

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Stoddard, Albert Henry, 1872-1954

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Albert H. Stoddard was a life long resident of Savannah, Georgia and Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and was a widely known authority on the Gullah dialect, which was an English based creole language spoken by the Gullah people, also known as Geechees, an African American population living on the Sea Island and coastal region of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeast Florida. Stoddard learned this dialect and stories from the Gullah people firsthand as a young boy growing up on the Melrose plan...