Originally published in 1982 as Daufuskie Island: A Photographic Essay, this 25th anniversary edition has been redesigned and supplemented with twice as many photographs as the original
publication. Life and culture on Daufuskie Island, settled by freed slaves after the Civil War, developed largely unchanged for decades. When photographer Moutoussamy-Ashe first visited the
island in 1977, around eighty permanent residents who still spoke the Gullah dialect lived there in the face of advancing development that would soon transform the island into a resort like the
neighboring Hilton Head. Moutoussamy-Ashe documented the daily life of the last generation of inhabitants and interpreted a lost place and people. The new edition includes the original foreword
by Alex Haley as well as a new epilogue by Moutoussamy-Ashe and preface by Deborah Willis, PhD, and is published in accompaniment to an eponymous, nationally touring exhibition. Oversize:
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