Acknowledgments / Dale Rosengarten and Enid Schildkrout
Introduction / Theodore Rosengarten
African origins: ancestors and analogues / Enid Schildkrout and Dale Rosengarten
They understand their business well: West Africans in early South Carolina / Peter H. Wood
Rice in the New World / Judith A. Carney
By the rivers of Babylon: the Lowcountry basket in slavery and freedom / Dale Rosengarten
Carolina's gold: three hundred years of rice and recipes in lowcountry kitchens / Jessica B. Harris
Missions and markets: Sea Island basketry and the sweetgrass revolution / Dale Rosengarten
Necessity and invention: the art of coiled basketry in Southern Africa / Sandra Klopper
Documentary images and devotional acts: plantation painting as propaganda / John Michael Vlach
The paradox of preservation: Gullah language, culture and imagery / Fath Davis Ruffins
Islands are not isolated: reconsidering the roots of Gullah distinctiveness / J. Lorand Matory.
