In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection
of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South
Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his
family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and
largely unavailable until now.
Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler
Harris's inland dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique
language and character. Through Jones' rendering of the sound and
syntax of nineteenth-century Gullah, the lively stories describe
the adventures and mishaps of such characters as "Buh Rabbit," "Buh
Ban-Yad Rooster," and other animals. The tales range from the
humorous to the instructional and include stories of the "sperits,"
Daddy Jupiter's "vision," a dying bullfrog's last wish, and others
about how "buh rabbit gained sense" and "why the turkey buzzard
won't eat crabs."
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