They came from US slave culture or had been slaves themselves. They lived in a small enclave in the region around All Saints Parish, between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean. There were more than a hundred of them, and they had a lot to say to Genevieve W. Chandler, a worker in the WPA Federal Writers Project between 1936 and 1938. Their narratives include slavery, celebration, poverty, folk medicine, childhood spent working, adulthood spent under Jim Crow. They were nine years old, they were 104 years old, they spoke Gullah, which Chandler recorded so faithfully Creole linguists value her work now. Finally, after 70 years of being published in bits and pieces, they speak within the covers of the same book for the first time. This is extremely exciting primary material for linguists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and those who care to learn what it was to be Gullah. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)