Haunted Plantations: Ghosts of Slavery and Legends of the Cotton Kingdoms (Images of America: South Carolina) - Softcover

Buxton, Geordie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738525014 ISBN 13: 9780738525013

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

A shackled West African tribe drags themselves off a
slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America's past--real lives of people on plantations from Savannah and the coast of the Carolinas. Most deal with the hub of the East Coast slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina. All are richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary images. Dwelling in the affairs of plantation life is to tread the fires of emotionally raw history. Sifting through the folklore and legends, the old hushed embers of the south ignite once again in this collection. While these stories relate encounters with the supernatural, readers will find that what actually happened here doesn't
always need a ghost to be disquieting.

About this title

About the Author:

Local writer Geordie Buxton conducts ghost tours by boat in Charleston Harbor and on foot in the historic district. The coauthor of two previous books of local ghost stories, this is his first single collection.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0738525014
• ISBN 13: 9780738525013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128